Gold Quotes - Page 45

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.

And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.

Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.

In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!

My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.

Dip a slice of bread in batter. That's September: yellow, gold, soft and sticky. Fry the bread. Now you have October: chewier, drier, streaked with browns. The day in question fell somewhere in the middle of the french toast process.

I wonder how many eggs are in the golden goose?

It's clear why hacking communities are [growing]. Because it's like, there's a lot more gold there. There's a lot more to steal than ever before.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.

I catch a flash of red-gold beneath the surface of the water, and realize that there are koi in the pond, massive, serene, and I wonder: are they dreams of fish, or fish who dream?

Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

We are the bees of the invisible. We madly gather the honey of the visible to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.

Did chemistry theorems exist? No: therefore you had to go further, not be satisfied with the quia, go back to the origins, to mathematics and physics. The origins of chemistry were ignoble, or at least equivocal: the dens of the alchemists, their abominable hodgepodge of ideas and language, their confessed interest in gold, their Levantine swindles typical of charlatans and magicians; instead, at the origin of physics lay the strenuous clarity of the West-Archimedes and Euclid.

Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

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

You can't have employment and despise employers ... No goose, no golden eggs.