Famous Quotes & Sayings

Giles Foden

In any culture, if information is to maximise in a contextual space, and new meanings be born, the original story has to have substance - there's gotta be gold in them thar hills.

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Antoine Rivarol

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

Joe Jamail

We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose sole interest is in whatever it takes to be able to get to the point to fly out on their golden parachute and milk the shareholder and take risks that they shouldn't take.

Marianne Vos

My big objective this season is to win three gold medals at the Olympics, in the road race, the time trial and the points race.

Jason Goulden

Most gold mines don't see this level of public opposition.

Kevin Garnett

We have our hand on the neck of the golden goose and we're squeezing hard.

Source Unknown

Whoever has the gold makes all the rules.

Shizuka Arakawa

I think I will realize that I have won gold in the next two or three days. Many times I've thought about quitting. I'm happy I have continued.

Mark Twain

These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

Jennifer Stone

Consumerism is our national religion.

Thomas Carlyle

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Russell Brand

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Nicholas Kristof

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.

John Maynard Keynes

For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Andreas Capellanus

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

Pliny Elder

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

Stendhal

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.