Gold Quotes - page 6

And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen? And did the Countenance Divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic mills? Bring me my Bow of burning gold, Bring me my Arrows of desire, Bring me my Spear - O clouds, unfold! Bring me my Chariot of fire! I will not cease from mental fight, Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In England's green & pleasant land. (William Blake)
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. View quote
Plutarch
Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece." View quote
Plutarch
And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!" View quote
Plutarch
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. View quote
Rumi
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be. View quote
Edward Bellamy
It's amazing how fast gold works. View quote
Terry Pratchett
I belong to the Great Church which holds the world within its starlit aisles; that claims the great and good of every race and clime; that finds with joy the grain of gold in every creed, and floods with light and love the germs of good in every soul. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Copious springs are found where there are mines of gold, silver, iron, copper, lead, and the like, but they are very harmful. (Vitruvius)
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. View quote
Martha Graham
I am an advocate of having a gold dollar with Reagan's picture on it, and calling it the Ronnie. The Canadians have the Loonie, and we can have the Ronnie. View quote
Trent Lott
Don't soil your pretty little shoes The gutter's deep and red Climb up climb up and ride along with me the tumbrel driver saidBut she never said a word never turned her headDon't soil your pretty little pants I only go one way Climb up climb up and ride along with me There's no gold coach todayBut she never said a word never turned her head. View quote
Peter Weiss
People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway. View quote
Jesse Owens
Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine. View quote
Flora Thompson
What is charm, it is not a moral quality.. it is not intellectual for no man by much thinking is able to add a grain of it to his personality. One either has it or has it not, it cannot be acquired or even cultivated. It is not physical even.. it seems to be added to the human personality, an aura, a glow, the gold dust upon a butterfly's wing, the bloom upon a peach. View quote
Flora Thompson
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. View quote
Lord Byron
All is not gold that glisters. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told. View quote
Geoffrey Chaucer
I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth. (Oswald Pohl)
Much more definitive and much more lasting than all the gold that one can accumulate is the gratitude of a people. View quote
Che Guevara
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Good writing, like gold, combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Niggers was the ones with the rope, hanging off trees; Niggas are the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs. View quote
Tupac Shakur