Gold Quotes - Page 24

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sometimes, Silver, Valuable

  "The Queer Feet: A Father Brown Mystery". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1911.

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• Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Dark, Clouds, Islands

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.92, Delphi Classics

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• Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Pearls, Sand, Mines

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• The most important thing in this world is liberty. More important than food or clothes - more important than gold or houses or lands - more important than art or science - more important than all religions, is the liberty of man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Art, Men, Clothes

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3989, Library of Alexandria

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• Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each sheaf a little yellow sun, A heap of hot-rayed gold; Each binder like Creation's hand To mold suns, as of old.

  Vachel Lindsay

  Hands, Yellow, Kansas

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• Now I'm a little hurt. Let me check my tears in the reflection of my championship gold.

  The Miz

  Hurt, Reflection, Wwe

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• And frankly, I'm a huge gold digger and The Miz is about to make a lot of money!

  Alex Riley

  Wwe, Lots Of Money, Huge

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• Robert Torricelli, a powerful fund-raiser who helped raise more than $100 million for the Democratic party, took inappropriate gifts from a businessman, including an $8,000 gold Rolex watch, for which he was severely admonished by the Senate Ethics Committee in July. To recap: raising $100 million in contributions from gigantic corporations - ethical; taking a watch - unethical. That's the Senate Ethics Committee, an oxymoron since 1974.

  Jon Stewart

  Powerful, Party, July

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• The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they are valued by their parents. . . . When children know that they are valued, when they truly feel valued in the deepest parts of themselves, then they feel valuable. This knowledge is worth more than any gold.

  M. Scott Peck

  Children, Parent, Quality

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• To get rich, one must have but a single idea, one fixed, hard, immutable thought: the desire to make a heap of gold. And in order to increase this heap of gold, one must be inflexible, a usurer, thief, extortionist, and murderer! And one must especially mistreat the small and the weak! And when this mountain of gold has been amassed, one can climb up on it, and from up on the summit, a smile on one's lips, one can contemplate the valley of poor wretches that one has created.

  Petrus Borel

  Order, Ideas, Desire

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• In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

  Khalil Gibran

  Effort, Society, Teeth

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• How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Men, Ideas

  "Coningsby". Book by Benjamin Disraeli, Book VII, Ch. 2, 1844.

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• O God of earth and altar,
  Bow down and hear our cry,
  Our earthly rulers falter,
  Our people drift and die;
  The walls of gold entomb us,
  The swords of scorn divide,
  Take not thy thunder from us,
  But take away our pride.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wall, Pride, People

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton, “A Hymn”

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• Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Kings, Snakes, Devil

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• Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Sleep, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, “A Nation's Strength”

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• Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to what? To true discipleship? To cross-carrying? To self-denial? To separation from the world? To crucifixion of the flesh? To holy living? To hard self-discipline ? To love for God? To total committal to Christ? Of course the answer to all these questions is...No.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Winning, Self, Discipline

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• Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who comes and shrives us, We bargain for the graves we lie in; Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold... 'T is heaven alone that is given away, 'T is only God may be had for the asking; There is no price set on the lavish summer, And June may be had by the poorest comer.

  James Russell Lowell

  Summer, Money, Lying

  James Russell Lowell, Nathan Haskell Dole (1893). “The Early Poems of James Russell Lowell: With Biographical Sketch”

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• With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mistake, Writing, Style

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.429

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• I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows.... glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in its foliage, warmth in its fibers, and health in it the year round.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Home, Autumn

  "Under the Maples - The Last Portrait of John Burroughs".

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• We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold.

  Walter Scott

  Gay, Thinking, Clouds

  Walter Scott, Sir Walter Scott (1841). “The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart”, p.623

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• Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

  Pindar

  Mother, Horse, Queens

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• That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt Lake City, and really established ourselves as the best team in the world.

  Hayley Wickenheiser

  Team, Lakes, Cities

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• Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Heart, Thieves

  1599-1600 Rosalind to Celia. AsYou Like It, act1, sc.3, l.107-9.

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• Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.

  Phyllis Diller

  Important, Next, Jewelry

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• Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself, only female.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Female, Chemistry

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