Gold Quotes
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean
Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.Author Unknown
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
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
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)
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.Henry Mille
Ah, Hope what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of to - Day, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.La Rochefoucauld
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.Seneca
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.John Donne
All is not gold that glitters.Miguel de Cervantes
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - From Live Without Principle.Henry David Thoreau
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.J. R. R. Tolkien
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.Joey Adams
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.Leo Tolstoy
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.Euripides
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.Anon.
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.John Evelyn
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
Gold for friends, Lead for foes.Anastasio Somoza Garc? a, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936 - 1956
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.Samuel Johnson
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.Seneca, Epistles
Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.Marcius Porcius Cato
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
All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.J. R. R. Tolkien
Early morning hath gold in its mouth.Benjamin Franklin
Sleep is the golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.Thomas Dekke
Everything has its limit - - Iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906.Mark Twain
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.Malayan Prove
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
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.Johann von Goethe
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
A book holds a house of gold.Chinese Prove
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.Elinor Glyn
