Gold Quotes
To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.
Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able to work hard and make it on their own.
Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.
October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.
We should be thanking Apple for launching the $10,000 'apple watch' as the new gold standard in douchebag detection.
To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.
In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.
The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.
Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.
From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
Wild honey smells of freedom The dust - of sunlight The mouth of a young girl, like a violet But gold - smells of nothing.
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.
As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect
I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.
See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.
I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck.
Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!
A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.
If you want to be productive, follow leads and dig. Whether it is for oil, gold or information, it requires action - your action. Question authority. Do it yourself.
Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.
But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!
If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks
I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.
Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.
We want men to rule the nation who care more for and love better the nation's welfare than gold and silver, fame or popularity.
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.
I just won the gold medal and I couldn't eat downtown. I said, 'Something's wrong.' And from then on, I've been a Muslim.
And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.