Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

George Carlin

The older you get, the better you realize you were.

Fawn M. Brodie

There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

Euripides

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Rick Carlisle

I've heard Golden State mentioned, but I've heard 17 or 18 other teams mentioned.

Sasha Cohen

I've got a lot of silvers in different shoeboxes in storage units all over the place. But I think the gold one will have a special place.

Michael Greis

I'm more than happy with my three gold medals. From a sporting perspective, today is the greatest day of my life.

I'm only going to talk about guys that wanted to be Golden Eagles.

Florence Scovel Shinn

Every person is a golden link in the chain of my good.

Cassandra Clare

Gold to airy thinness beat.

Cassandra Clare

And the gold of her ruined wedding dress.

Cassandra Clare

I'm a werewolf, not a golden retriever." (Luke/Lucian)

Shaun White

Any medal would be good. A big gold one even better.

Ben Wallace

Any team in the NBA would have won that gold medal instead of a team of individuals.

Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

Justin Gatlin

says the Olympic 100-meter gold medalist. ''If I go out and do great, it'll be, 'Well, Asafa wasn't there.' That's the first thing they'll say.