Gold Quotes

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

Alain de Lille

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Mille

I was born at the age of 12 on a Metro - Goldwyn - Mayer lot.

Judy Garland

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

Albert Einstein

Gold for friends, Lead for foes.

Anastasio Somoza Garc? a, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936 - 1956

Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.

Euripides

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link, into the great chain of order.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

Kahlil Gibran

Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.

John M. Capozzi

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Claiborne Pell

Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Sir Thomas More, Utopia

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Jonathan Swift

Dig where the gold is? Unless you just need some exercise.

John M. Capozzi, Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator?

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

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Horace, Odes

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Everything has its limit - - Iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - 1906.

Mark Twain

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.

Tao Te Ching

All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - Nothing.

Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs

The source of the famous Golden Rule. Many famous lines were variations on this theme.

Bible

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.

Romanian Prove

Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.

Joey Adams

The golden rule of cats that governs all relationships we have with people: you scratch my back, you scratch my back.

David Fisher, Conversations with My Cat

All is not gold that glitters.

Miguel de Cervantes

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.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Ludwig van Beethoven

He fishes well who uses a golden hook.

Latin Prove

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Where as gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, it comes an evil guest unto those that receive it in their hand.

Simondes of Ceos

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Seneca, Epistles

Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.

Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean