Gold Quotes - Page 25

• For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sad, Taken, Twilight

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.82, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition.

  John Updike

  Country, Athlete, Trying

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• It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Use, Teeth, Vulgar

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

  Ovid

  Honour, Highest

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.318, Delphi Classics

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• I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

  Ovid

  Greed, Digging, Mouths

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• The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Coins, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1838). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh ; In Three Books ...”, p.129

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• When the thunder rumbles,
  Now the age of gold is dead.
  When the dreams we've clung to
  Trying to stay young,
  Have left us parched and old instead.
  When my courage crumbles,
  When I feel confused and frail,
  When my spirit falters on decaying altars
  And my illusions fail --
  I go on right then.
  I go on again.
  I go on to say I will celebrate another day.
  I go on.
  If tomorrow tumbles
  And everything I love is gone,
  I will face regret all my days, and yet
  I will still go on.

  Leonard Bernstein

  Dream, Determination, Regret

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• It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Journey, Men, Giving

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4407, Library of Alexandria

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• [V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Garden, Weather, Ivory

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• But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance; it always gives itself. Only as an image of the highest virtue did gold get to be the highest value. The giver's glance gleams like gold. A golden brilliance concludes peace between the moon and the sun. Uncommon is the highest virtue and useless, it is gleaming and gentle in its brilliance: a gift-giving virtue is the highest virtue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Money, Moon, Giving

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

  Kami Garcia

  Bangs, Sometimes, Bigs

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• Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

  Paul Eldridge

  Consumerism, Avarice

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• We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons.

  Wangari Maathai

  Thinking, Important, Skins

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• Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.

  Curtis Jackson

  Clever, Enough, Worst

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• A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.

  Publilius Syrus

  Puddles, Thrones, Frogs

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• Thy treasures of gold
  Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold;
  Thy home may be lovely, but round it I hear
  The crack of the whip, and the footsteps of fear.

  Lydia M. Child

  Home, Heart, Blood

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• What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Experience, Littles, Ruins

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• A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria, in lieu of gold, at the Moscow Narodny Bank, a Communist finance house for East-West trade.

  S. J. Perelman

  Pale Yellow, Oil, House

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• The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

  Andre Gide

  Pieces, Empty, Misers

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.27, Routledge

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• If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.

  Saadi

  Bruises, Pieces, Stones

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• Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
  In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
  That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams,
  And shoot the shadows through and through with light?
  What matters one lost vision of the night?
  Let the dream go!

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Beautiful, Dream

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.391, Jazzybee Verlag

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• In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Love, Notes, Payment

  Henry van Dyke (2015). “The Spirit of Christmas”, p.14, Booklassic

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• Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Taken, Creativity

  Letter to his wife (October 21, 1907). "Letters on Cézanne". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke, 1952.

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• The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Numbers, Land

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• No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.

  John Heywood

  Men, Made, Chains

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.366

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