Gold Quotes - Page 38

• Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Temptation, Bells

  'King John' (1591-8) act 3, sc. 3, l. 12

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• Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning us against the dangers of democracy, yet today teachers and politicians use the word as if it were an offering of gold.

  Neal Boortz

  Teacher, Father, Offering

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• I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Agreement, United States

  "Before she ran off, Condi threw a tantrum in Ottawa". www.dailykos.com. October 26, 2005.

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• A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Coats, May, Fool

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• Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

  George Carlin

  Play, Gold Teeth, People

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• DREAM PREDICTION ELITE is the realization of true amazement in your audiences reactions. This is PURE GOLD - A REAL WINNER

  Banachek

  Dream, Real, Winner

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• October is a fine and dangerous season in America. It is dry and cool and the land is wild with red and gold and crimson, and all the lassitudes of August have seeped out of your blood, and you are full of ambition. It is a wonderful time to begin anything at all.

  Thomas Merton

  Ambition, August, Blood

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.190, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.

  J. C. Ryle

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Humble

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• I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Grew

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.1114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Leo Tolstoy

  Truth Is, Bigger, Grows

  R. F. Christian, Leo Tolstoy (2015). “Tolstoy's Diaries Volume 2: 1895-1910”, p.178, Faber & Faber

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• It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.

  James Turrell

  Light, People, Important

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• A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Fortune, Disposition, Latter

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• We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Mean, Night

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• If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for purity and weight, then it would of course be finished as mythic activity. Free of doubt, controversy, and the inexplicable fluctuation of reputation, art-making would bear the same relationship to creativity as cake mix does to baking.

  Harold Town

  Art, Creativity, Cake

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• If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.

  Thomas Paine

  Law, Support, Unjust

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.167, Yale University Press

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• Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.

  Ogden Nash

  Love Is, And Love, Thieves

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• Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

  Ian Anderson

  Nature, Lines, Silver

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• But men don't come in just two groups, one of gold and the other of lead. They are a mix of both." "And what about women?" "Pure gold, my girl," Rayvan answered with a chuckle.

  David Gemmell

  Girl, Men, Two

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 22, 1985.

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• Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Doors

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• May you and I run in such a way to receive the prize of gold when we run the race of passionate faith.

  Angela Thomas

  Running, Race, Passionate

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• You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

  Ira Glass

  Trying, Ifs

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• We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them

  Diane Ravitch

  Rainbow, Pot, Ends

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.15, Basic Books

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• Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.

  Ron Paul

  Men, Honest

  Ron Paul, Lewis Lehrman (2007). “The Case for Gold: A Minority Report of the U.S. Gold Commission”, p.183, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Gold is money and nothing else.

  J. P. Morgan

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• Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

  Alan Kay

  Weight, Silver, Outlook

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