Gold Quotes

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
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Aesop, the goose with the golden eggs - thinking to get at once all the gold the goose...
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
Georg christoph lichtenberg - man is a gregarious animal and much more so in...
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Horace, Odes
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
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.
Kahlil Gibran
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.
Orison Swett Marden
Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.
John M. Capozzi
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.
D. March
I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.
Captain Edmund Blackadder, Blackadder Goes Forth
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
John Updike
Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up.
Charles Foundyller of Daratech, from 8/14/92 Wall St Journal
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
Joachim du bellay - happy the man who, like ulysses, has made a fine...
A book holds a house of gold.
Chinese Prove
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
The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.
David Fisher, Conversations with My Cat
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
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
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Prove
I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer lot.
Judy Garland
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished.
Og Mandino
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
Everything has its limit - - Iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906.
Mark Twain
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
Alain de Lille
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Johann von Goethe
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot
Beauty holds more worth than gold.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekke
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca, Epistles
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
Kahlil Gibran
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