Gold Quotes

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
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
Tao te ching - better stop short than fill to the brim....
Everything has its limit - - Iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906.
Mark Twain
J. r. r. tolkien - if more of us valued food and cheer and song...
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?
Early morning hath gold in its mouth.
Benjamin Franklin
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.
Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean
Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
John Updike
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
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty holds more worth than gold.
Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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
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
Claiborne pell - the strength of the united states is not the gold...
He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
Latin Prove
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
Euripides
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
Sir Thomas More, Utopia
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
Latin Prove
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
Malayan Prove
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
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
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
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
Author Unknown
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.
Euripides
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
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Seneca, Epistles
Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.
John M. Capozzi
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
All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.
Samuel Johnson
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
Henry Mille
Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
Thomas Dekke
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
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
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.
John Evelyn
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