Golden Quotes - Page 4

Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

Soaking the rich would not only be profoundly immoral, it would drastically penalize the very virtues: thrift, business foresight, and investment, that have brought about our remarkable standard of living. It would truly be killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.

I never thought I'd say this, but I miss voter fraud.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are at an end. You have nothing but trouble before you. . . . Your liberties will be lost.

The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

People are just cannibals unless they leave each other alone.

Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'

The finer things I feel in me, the golden dance life could be.

I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise.

You can have the 'golden rule' - do unto others as you would have others do unto you. But then you take it one step farther - where you just do good unto others, period. Just for the sake of it.

Our fears can cause us to miss out on a lot of experiences and golden opportunities. Don't let your fears rob you of your life.

Happy days roll onward leading up to golden years.

I'll never make any resolutions. Drop all resolutions! Let life be a natural spontaneity. The only golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.

To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.

In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.

Sit and do nothing. Every once in a while a golden fish swims by and lays her golden eggs. You'll know.

Golden roofs break men's rest.

Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?

The golden light of metaphor, which is the intelligence of poetry, was implicit in alchemical study. To change, magically, one substance into another, more valuable one is the ancient function of metaphor, as it was of alchemy.

When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers.