Gold Quotes

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

Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.

Joey Adams

I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer lot.

Judy Garland

A book holds a house of gold.

Chinese Prove

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

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Horace, Odes

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.

Seneca

All is not gold that glitters.

Miguel de Cervantes

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.

Euripides

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.

Romanian Prove

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

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

Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.

Latin Prove

Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

Henry Drummond

Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

Benjamin Franklin

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?

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

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

Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.

Ecclesiasticus, Aprocrypha (Ec. 41: 12)

All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Mille

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

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

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

The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme.

Bible

The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

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

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