Famous Quotes & Sayings

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

John Osborne

Royalty is the gold filling in a mouthful of decay

John Morrill

Like Liberty, gold never stays where it is undervalued.

John Desmond Bernal

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

Leo Tolstoy

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

Josh Williams

It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels.

Leonard Cohen

The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule

John Keats

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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.

Lord Byron

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it throughout life.

Mahatma Gandhi

The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold ... that is, in large quantities.

John Dryden

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

John Maynard Keynes

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

John Lothrop Motley

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

John Locke

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

John Leeson

It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

Ekaterina Gordeeva

The first gold medal we had won for the Soviet Union. This one we won for each other.

Logan Pearsall Smith

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

Tupac Shakur

Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.

Tracy K. Smith

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Richard Barnfield

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold.

Robert Frost

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

Thomas More

Nor can they understand why a totally useless substance like gold should now, all over the world, be considered far more important than human beings, who gave it such value as it has, purely for their own convenience.

Thomas More

To gold and silver nature hath given no use that we may not well lack.

Ryan Zimmerman

A Gold Glove would be one of the things I would really cherish. When I was younger, I was always smaller. I couldn't hit, so I had to work on defense.

S. E. Hinton

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

Ron Paul

I want to just obey the Constitution.The Constitution says only gold and silver can be legal tender.

Saadi

If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.

Solon

Often the wicked prosper, while the righteous starve; yet I would never exchange my state for theirs, my virtue for their gold. For mine endures, while riches change their owner every day.