Gold Quotes
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.Euripides
I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer lot.Judy Garland
Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to - Day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.La Rochefoucauld
Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold - - But so does a hard - Boiled egg.Unknown
Everything has its limit - - Iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906.Mark Twain
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.Jonathan Swift
He fishes well who uses a golden hook.Latin Prove
They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.Kahlil Gibran
Beauty holds more worth than gold.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.Claiborne Pell
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.Tao Te Ching
Where as gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, it comes an evil guest unto those that receive it in their hand.Simondes of Ceos
Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.John Updike
All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.J. R. R. Tolkien
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.Og Mandino
Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.Ecclesiasticus, Aprocrypha (Ec. 41: 12)
All is not gold that glitters.Miguel de Cervantes
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.Elinor Glyn
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
Gold for friends, Lead for foes.Anastasio Somoza Garc? a, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936 - 1956
Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.Marcius Porcius Cato
Early morning hath gold in its mouth.Benjamin Franklin
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.Thomas Dekke
Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.Author Unknown
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.John Donne
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.Alain de Lille
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.John Evelyn