Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynne Truss

Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.

Lysander Spooner

Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It is only such a quantum of market value as exists in a given piece of silver or gold.

John Gardner

Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

Jonathan Carroll

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

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.

Joe Hill

Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes.

Joan Robinson

The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise.

George Leonard

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

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.

The last two weeks, we really worked on getting mentally ready to go out and wrestle. He had one thing in mind, and that was winning a gold medal.

Kyle Shewfelt

The main objective for us was to win gold for the team and this was accomplished on Thursday. Everything else is an extra.

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

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.

It was COMEX options expiration today, so they got gold down near the big strike price at $550.

Charles Caleb Colton

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Alan Watts

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

China Mieville

Anything for gold and experience.

William Shakespeare

Gold--what can it not do, and undo?

We have to go to the gold mines to dig. If we do not do that, we will not survive.

Byron Katie

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

Samuel Butler

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Michael Johnson

They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.

Today represents a milestone day in the gold mining industry.