Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ovid

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

Paul Eldridge

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Oswald Chambers

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

Mario Andretti

What is golden is miles under your belt, miles, miles, miles.

Chris Matthews

Bill Clinton was for NAFTA. I heard him over in Tokyo he came out all said it was a great bill. Secretary Clinton was for it. She called it the gold standard when she was secretary of state.

Hans Christian Andersen

I covet honour in the same way as a miser covets gold.

Neal Shusterman

Lev smiles. "Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold

Joseph Addison

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

The last two weeks, we really worked on getting mentally ready to go out and wrestle. He had one thing in mind, and that was winning a gold medal.

Kyle Shewfelt

The main objective for us was to win gold for the team and this was accomplished on Thursday. Everything else is an extra.

Emile M. Cioran

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.

Helen McCrory

I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

Naomi Wolf

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.

All that glitters is sold as gold.

Oliver Sacks

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

Nouriel Roubini

Gold has no increasing value. And if you're really worried about, say, inflation rising, I would buy Spam. You know, you can eat Spam. You cannot eat gold.

Nouriel Roubini

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.

Mary Kom

Never buy gold, simply earn it

Martin Short

An actor can spew out thoughts, but they're not all gold.

Malcolm Mclaren

Don't kill the golden goose.

Mahatma Gandhi

Labour is priceless, not gold.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

The Comets organization proved to me their word is as good as gold. That's all I go by. If I can't trust you, I don't want to work for you.

Neal Stephenson

Gold is the corpse of value...

Shane Claiborne

In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne.

Michelle Kwan

I didn't lose the gold. I won the silver.

John Muir

Hidden in the glorious wildness like unmined gold.

John Steinbeck

It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be loved without satiety.