Gold Quotes - Page 33

• You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing.

  Hermann Hesse

  Laughter, Pain, Opposites

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Ashes, Earth

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works, Including His Life and Correspondence: Pseudodoxia epidemica, books 4-7. The garden of Cyrus. Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns”, p.475

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• Obviously in 2008 it was 538 (to win an Olympic gold) and most of my scores have been over that this year.

  Tom Daley

  Winning, Years, Score

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• The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Wind, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Problem”

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• By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive.

  William Shakespeare

  Offending, Soul, Honor

  William Shakespeare (1797). “Works, containing his plays and poems: to which is added a glossary”, p.543

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• All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

  William Shakespeare

  Dirty, Worship, Wealth

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• The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fall, Twilight, Clouds

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.845, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There is no treasure the which may be compared unto a faithful friend; Gold some decayeth, and worldly wealth consumeth, and wasteth in the winde; But love once planted in a perfect and pure minde indureth weale and woe; The frownes of fortune, come they never so unkinde, cannot the same overthrowe.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Friends, Perfect, Faithful

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• Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

  Robert Browning

  Hair, Used, Brushes

  'A Toccata of Galuppi's' (1855) st. 15

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• The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

  Edwin Arnold

  Coats, Royal, Dare

  Sir Edwin Arnold (1856). “Griselda: a tragedy: and other poems”, p.235

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• Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Inheritance, Sickness, Rich

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Mosses from an Old Manse”, p.115, Nathaniel Hawthorne

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• Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

  Alexander Pope

  Judging, And Love, Bribery

  Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.442

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• And little eagles wave their wings in gold.

  Alexander Pope

  Eagles, Wings, Littles

  Alexander Pope (1867). “Poetical Works, with Life of the Author and Notes”, p.452

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• For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Pride, Suffering

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 253, 2006.

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• Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long, 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.

  John Quincy Adams

  Song, Men, Long

  JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1848). “POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY”, p.15

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• What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

  Francis Quarles

  Son, Glitter, Treasure

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• Life has loveliness to sell, / Music like a curve of gold, / Scent of pine trees in the rain, / Eyes that love you, arms that hold, / And for your spirit's still delight, / Holy thoughts that star the night.

  Sara Teasdale

  Stars, Rain, Love You

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

  Philip James Bailey

  Sunshine, Beard, Moss

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.146

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• While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

  Ryan Adams

  Laughter, Passion, Heart

  Ryan Adams (2009). “Infinity Blues”, p.232, Akashic Books

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• Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.

  Hesiod

  Eye, Design, Spy

  Hesiod (1822). “The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII”, p.43

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• There are few situations in life that cannot be resolved promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned, by either suicide, a bag of gold, or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night

  Ernest Bramah

  Suicide, Dark, Night

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• Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

  Alain de Lille

  Shining

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• The law itself follows gold.

  Propertius

  Law

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• Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.

  Naomi Wolf

  Male Dominance, Currency, Standards

  Naomi Wolf (2009). “The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Is it a man walking on the beach, winking at the girls and looking for going to bed? Is it someone who wears a lot of gold chains and rings and sits at the bar? Because this is not me! I am very, very Latin, but not so much lover.

  Antonio Banderas

  Girl, Beach, Latin

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