Gold Quotes
The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme.Bible
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.Latin Prove
He fishes well who uses a golden hook.Latin Prove
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.Kahlil Gibran
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.Albert Einstein
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
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
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.Alain de Lille
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
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
I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer lot.Judy Garland
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
Everything has its limit - - Iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906.Mark Twain
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
A book holds a house of gold.Chinese 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
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
Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.Ecclesiasticus, Aprocrypha (Ec. 41: 12)
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.J. R. R. Tolkien
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
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.Henry Mille
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
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
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean
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
Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.Henry Drummond
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.Jonathan Swift
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.Samuel Johnson
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
Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.John M. Capozzi
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 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
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?
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.Joey Adams
Gold for friends, Lead for foes.Anastasio Somoza Garc? a, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936 - 1956
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
