Famous Quotes & Sayings

Logan Pearsall Smith

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

Lynne Truss

Evidently an A level in English is a sacred trust, like something out of "The Lord of the Rings". You must go forth with your A level and protect the English language with your bow of elfin gold.

Lysander Spooner

Practically and commercially speaking, a dollar is not necessarily a specific thing, made of silver, or gold, or any other single metal, or substance. It is only such a quantum of market value as exists in a given piece of silver or gold.

John Gardner

Find a pile of gold and sit on it.

Leo Tolstoy

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

John Maynard Keynes

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

John Lothrop Motley

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

John Locke

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

John Leeson

It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.

Joyce Meyer

Potential is a priceless treasure, like gold. All of us have gold hidden within, but we have to dig to get it out.

Josh Williams

It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels.

Leonard Cohen

The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule

John Keats

Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold.

Lois McMaster Bujold

From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.

Lord Byron

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it throughout life.

Mahatma Gandhi

The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

Kami Garcia

The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold ... that is, in large quantities.

John Dryden

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

John Clare

Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

The gold standard, if you will, is being able to have a label on the product that says it's sterile.

The gold prices have people snooping around where they haven't snooped for a while. No question -- there's an increase and interest in exploration.

The gold price has taken quite a hit and it does not look like it wants to post any major recovery.

The gold price at these levels still helps the rand immensely. It's still pretty good going for the rand.

The gold market has been looking for more uncertainty and we are seeing it this morning.

The Golden Slipper is a pressure race and this horse doesn't feel pressure.

The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is your move

The gold ball, that was the big thing tonight.