Gold Quotes - Page 37

• It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities.

  David Ricardo

  Country, Variation, Coins

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.46

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• The furnace which melts gold, also hardens clay. Before blaming thy fate, therefore, find whether thou art gold or clay.

  Ivan Panin

  Art, Fate, Clay

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• I think I gave indications early on that mine wasn't just going to be a commercial, er, career. If that were the case, then the first record would have been 10 versions of 'Loser.' I always thought it would be interesting if there was no such thing as gold and platinum records, or record deals, and people were just making music. What would the music sound like?

  Beck

  Thinking, Careers, People

  Blender magazine, October 2002.

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• Faced with the alternative of saying goodbye to the gold standard, and therefore to his own employment, and goodbye to other people's employment, Mr. Churchill characteristically selected the latter course.

  Oswald Mosley

  Goodbye, People, Alternatives

  "Oswald Mosley" by Robert Skidelsky, Papermacs, (p. 143), 1981.

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• All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose nature is Existence-Intelligence; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.

  Adi Shankara

  Imagination, Different, Ornaments

  "Atma Bodh" translated by Swami Chinmayananda, Chinmaya Mission, (p. 16), 1987.

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• Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.

  Robert B. Leighton

  Sleep, Doors, Needs

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• If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for purity and weight, then it would of course be finished as mythic activity. Free of doubt, controversy, and the inexplicable fluctuation of reputation, art-making would bear the same relationship to creativity as cake mix does to baking.

  Harold Town

  Art, Creativity, Cake

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• I found ways to seal off the powdery surface of pastel so that gold leaf can adhere to it. Similarly, I found ways to roughen the texture of the gold leaf so pastel can be applied over it.

  Doug Dawson

  Texture, Way, Found

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• The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise.

  Joan Robinson

  Lasts, Messages, Doctrine

  Joan Robinson (1973). “Economic heresies: some old-fashioned questions in economic theory”

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• Society established gold and silver as a circulating medium and as a legal tender in order that exchanges of commodities might be facilitated; but society blundered in so doing; for, by this very act, it gave to a certain class of men the power of saying what exchanges shall, and what exchanges shall not, be facilitated by means of this very circulating medium. The monopolizers of othe precious metals have an undue power over the community: they can say whether money shall, or shall not, be permitted to exercise its legitimate functions.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Mean, Exercise, Men

  William Batchelder Greene (1875). “Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments”, p.39

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• Behold the grapes and all the fruits that Autumn gives today, As robed in red and gold, she rules, the Empress of Decay!

  Henry Abbey

  Autumn, Giving, Decay

  Henry Abbey, “Autumn Ballad”

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• Out of the night you burn, Manhattan, In a vesture of gold-- Spun of innumerable arcs, Flaring and multiplying-- Gold at the uttermost circles fading Into the tenderest hint of jade, Or fusing in tremulous twilight blues, Robing the far-flung offices, Scintillant-storied, forking flame, Or soaring to luminous amethyst Over the steeples aureoled.

  Lola Ridge

  New York, Twilight, Night

  Lola Ridge (1918). “The Ghetto, and Other Poems”

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• Get an agent. Seriously, submitting stuff unagented means it will end up on the slush pile. An agent is the first quality filter, and a good agent is worth his or her weight in gold, as they'll often know the editors on a personal level and will be able to talk to them directly about the project.

  Tim Lebbon

  Writing, Mean, Editors

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• To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

  Ariana Franklin

  Heart, Craving, Humans

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• Some days my thoughts are just cocoons -- all cold, and dull, and blind, They hang from dripping branches in the grey woods of my mind; And other days they drift and shine -- such free and flying things! I find the gold-dust in my hair, left by their brushing wings.

  Karle Wilson Baker

  Hair, Dust, Wings

  Karle Wilson Baker (1931). “Dreamers on Horseback: (collected Verse)”

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• Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

  Pope Pius II

  Learning, Men, Noble Man

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• Deliver me from the long drought
  of the mind. Let leaves
  from the deciduous Cross
  fall on us, washing
  us clean, turning our autumn
  to gold by the affluence of their fountain.

  R. S. Thomas

  Fall, Autumn, Long

  "Laboratories of the Spirit" by R. S. Thomas, ("Prayer", p. 10), 1975.

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• All earthly suns have their spots: the fair world itself has its wilderness. We cannot love the whole of most lovely things: but Christ Jesus is gold without alloy-light without darkness- glory without cloud. 'Yea, He is altogether lovely.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Clouds, Light

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.279, Discovery House

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• Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Ignorant, Goes On

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.583, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• With their tinted windows up, the cars of the rich go like dark eggs down the roads of Delhi. Every now and then an egg will crack open a woman's hand, dazzling with gold bangles, stretches out an open window, flings an empty mineral water bottle onto the road and then the window goes up, and the egg is resealed.

  Aravind Adiga

  Dark, Hands, Eggs

  Aravind Adiga (2008). “The White Tiger”, p.81, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But winning a gold medal, I don't think anything can top that.

  Carmelo Anthony

  School, Winning, College

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• On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Weed, Flower, Men

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• What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?

  P. L. Travers

  Stars, Paper, Want

  P. L. Travers (2014). “Mary Poppins: 80th Anniversary Collection”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.

  John Lydgate

  Love Is

  John Lydgate (2001). “The Siege of Thebes”, Western Michigan Univ Medieval

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• So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on - "Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than gold e'er dusted;" proclaiming the merits of the bad wine, and making it, by every token, as enticing as we can; and blessing our stars that the good will be found out by its flavor "without our stir." As it is inestimable, we seek not to win esteem for it; as it is beyond all praise, we bestow no praises upon it.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Stars, Wine, Blessing

  "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.

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