Gold Quotes
Gold for friends, Lead for foes.Anastasio Somoza Garc? a, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936 - 1956
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
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
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
RICHER THAN GOLDYou may have tangible wealth untoldCaskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be - - I had a mother who read to me.Strickland Gillilan
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
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
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
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.Elinor Glyn
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.Henry Mille
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.James Barrie
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
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.Johann von Goethe
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.Samuel Johnson
I look at my myself and see a stone, I look at my friends and see gold, But I look at you, and see a gem.Unknown
I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer lot.Judy Garland
Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.John M. Capozzi
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
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.Joey Adams
The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
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
Beauty holds more worth than gold.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.John Updike
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.Jonathan Swift
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
He fishes well who uses a golden hook.Latin Prove
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.Alain de Lille
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.Horace, Odes
Dig where the gold is? Unless you just need some exercise.John M. Capozzi, Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator?
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - Nothing.Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs
A book holds a house of gold.Chinese Prove
