Golden Quotes - Page 26

• Venus, when her son was lost,
  Cried him up and down the coast,
  In hamlets, palaces, and parks,
  And told the truant by his marks,-
  Golden curls, and quiver, and bow.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Son, Curls

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.135, Delphi Classics

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• Ah, when shall all men's good
  Be each man's rule, and universal peace
  Lie like a shaft of light across the land,
  And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
  Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Peace, Lying, Men

  'The Golden Year' (1846) l. 47

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• To bring about a genuine political realignment, Republicans must kill the Government Goose that Lays the Golden Eggs - the very Goose they have fought so hard and long to possess.

  Jeb Bush

  Government, Eggs, Long

  "Deinventing Government". imprimis.hillsdale.edu. June, 1995.

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• Marriage is like a golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Marriage, Wedding

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• America's critics can be heard everywhere. It is too much in love with money - worshipping the god of the marketplace, the golden calf. It has too much money, seven of the top 10 banks, eight of the top 10 companies etc. It is too stingy, giving away less of its wealth than other countries. It is vulgar, a rich barbarian.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Country, America, Eight

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• I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

  Helen Keller

  Dark, Vision, I Can

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• An atheist is just somebody who feels about Yahweh the way any decent Christian feels about Thor or Baal or the golden calf. We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

  Richard Dawkins

  God, Christian, Atheist

  "Militant Atheism". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2002.

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• Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Song, Autumn, Light

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.2052, Delphi Classics

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• Yellow, mellow, ripened days, Sheltered in a golden coating; O'er the dreamy, listless haze, White and dainty cloudlets floating; Winking at the blushing trees, And the sombre, furrowed fallow; Smiling at the airy ease, Of the southward flying swallow Sweet and smiling are thy ways, Beauteous, golden Autumn days.

  Will Carleton

  Sweet, Fall, Autumn

  Will Carleton (2001). “Farm Ballads”, p.99, Applewood Books

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• The lands are lit with all the autumn blaze of golden-rod, and everywhere the purple asters nod and bend and wave and flit.

  Helen Hunt

  Autumn, Land, Purple

  H.H. (Helen Hunt) (1887). “Helen Jackson's Poems”

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• I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.

  Thomas Hood

  Lonely, Autumn, Night

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics

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• I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.

  Lin Yutang

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  "My Country and My People" by Lin Yutang, (p. 328), 1935.

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• We live by the Golden Rule. Those who have the gold make the rules.

  Buzzie Bavasi

  Money, Gold, Wealth

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• The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Family, Friends, Community

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.115, A&C Black

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• Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle of man's moral constitution - with the aid of active intellectual powers and the effects of habit, naturally lead to the golden rule, "As ye would that men should do to you; do ye to them likewise"; and this lies at the foundation of morality.

  Charles Darwin

  Lying, Men, Intellectual

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, part I, chap. IV, 1871.

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• An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Autumn, Night

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• Hark, I hear a robin calling!
  List, the wind is from the south!
  And the orchard-bloom is falling
  Sweet as kisses on the mouth.
  
  In the dreamy vale of beeches
  Fair and faint is woven mist,
  And the river's orient reaches
  Are the palest amethyst.
  
  Every limpid brook is singing
  Of the lure of April days;
  Every piney glen is ringing
  With the maddest roundelays.
  
  Come and let us seek together
  Springtime lore of daffodils,
  Giving to the golden weather
  Greeting on the sun-warm hills.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Sweet, Spring, Fall

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. M. Montgomery (Illustrated)”, p.6137, Delphi Classics

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• If your purse no longer bulges
  and you've lost your golden treasure,
  If times you think you're lonely
  and have hungry grown for pleasure,
  Don't sit by your hearth and grumble,
  don't let mind and spirit harden.
  If it's thrills of joy you wish for
  get to work and plant a garden!
  
  If it's drama that you sigh for,
  plant a garden and you'll get it
  You will know the thrill of battle
  fighting foes that will beset it
  If you long for entertainment and
  for pageantry most glowing,
  Plant a garden and this summer spend
  your time with green things growing.

  Edgar Guest

  Summer, Lonely, Spring

  Edgar Albert Guest (1916). “A Heap O' Livin' Along Life's Highway”

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• So Spring comes merry towards me here, but earns
  No answering smile from me, whose life is twin'd
  With the dead boughs that winter still must bind,
  And whom today the Spring no more concerns.
  Behold, this crocus is a withering flame;
  This snowdrop, snow; this apple-blossom's part
  To breed the fruit that breeds the serpent's art.
  Nay, for these Spring-flowers, turn thy face from them,
  Nor stay till on the year's last lily-stem
  The white cup shrivels round the golden heart.

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti

  Art, Spring, Flower

  Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frank Laurence Lucas (1933). “Dante Gabriel Rossetti: An Anthology”, p.169, CUP Archive

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• All the wild sweetness of the flower
  Tangled against the wall.
  It was that magic, silent hour....
  The branches grew so tall
  They twined themselves into a bower.
  The sun shown ... and the fall
  
  Of yellow blossom on the grass!
  You feel that golden rain?
  Both of you could not hold, alas,
  (both of you tried, in vain)
  A memory, stranger. So I pass....
  It will not come again.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Wall, Memories, Spring

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• There is not any haunt of prophecy,
  Nor any old chimera of the grave,
  Neither the golden underground, nor isle
  Melodious, where spirits gat them home,
  Nor visionary south, nor cloudy palm
  Remote on heaven's hill, that has endured
  As April's green endures; or will endure
  Like her remembrance of awakened birds,
  Or her desire for June and evening, tipped
  By the consummation of the swallow's wings.

  Wallace Stevens

  Spring, Home, June

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.22, Vintage

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• The fields are snowbound no longer;
  There are little blue lakes and flags of tenderest green.
  The snow has been caught up into the sky-
  So many white clouds-and the blue of the sky is cold.
  Now the sun walks in the forest,
  He touches the bows and stems with his golden fingers;
  They shiver, and wake from slumber.
  Over the barren branches he shakes his yellow curls.
  Yet is the forest full of the sound of tears....
  A wind dances over the fields.
  Shrill and clear the sound of her waking laughter,
  Yet the little blue lakes tremble
  And the flags of tenderest green bend and quiver.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Laughter, Spring, White

  Katherine Mansfield (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Katherine Mansfield (Illustrated)”, p.703, Delphi Classics

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• The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.

  George Carlin

  Suicide, Stupid, Practice

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  Emma Lazarus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tired

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• Far above the golden clouds, the darkness vibrates.
  The earth is blue.
  And everything about it is a love song. Everything about it.

  Paul Simon

  Life, Song, Clouds

  Song: Everything About It Is A Love Song, Album: Surprise

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