Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod Blagojevich

Each proposed B-2 stealth bomber costs three times more than it would if every part of the plane were made from solid gold. The cost is $2.3 billion each.

Virgil

The cursed hunger for gold. -Auri sacra fames

Virgil

The accursed hunger for gold.

William Blake

The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold; And there Jerusalem's pillars stood.

Werner Erhard

In every human being there is both garbage and gold, it is up to us to choose what we pay attention to.

Wayne Thiebaud

The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

W. P. Kinsella

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

William Cowper

Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.

Tony Oller

My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.

Vayalar Ravi

As per the age-old Customs and Central Excise Rules 1967, a person is allowed to carry only Rs 20,000 worth of gold.

Vladimir Putin

We can tell the general public that the gold and foreign currency reserves of the Central Bank are not designed to finance the economy, but rather to ensure foreign trade turnover. Therefore, we need this level to be able to provide the necessary foreign trade turnover for such an economy as Russia's for a period of at least three months.

Thomas Hobbes

Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.

Tim Cook

Our new watches are made entirely of double super gold. They are just a piece of gold that you can wear to the left, right, or directly on top of the other gold you own.

Jean Rhys

But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.

Jim Beaver

Obviously I struck gold with Deadwood. No pun intended.

Jesse Owens

I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.

Jeremy Taylor

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

Elon Musk

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold

Erwin Chargaff

Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.

Howard Bach

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

Horace

Gold will be slave or master.

Horace

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

Horace

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]

Ilya Bryzgalov

He's a nice guy. He's a great player. I hope he wins a gold medal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

Geoffrey Chaucer

If gold ruste, what shall iren do?

Geoffrey Chaucer

But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.

Geoffrey Chaucer

But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

Christopher Columbus

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

George Soros

When interest rates are low we have conditions for asset bubbles to develop, and they are developing at the moment. The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

George Soros

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

George R. R. Martin

Trust is earned. Like gold.