Golden Quotes

The golden rule is that there is not golden rule. (George Bernard Shaw)
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer. View quote
Muhammad Ali
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. View quote
George Eliot
You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself. View quote
Diana Ross
Two golden hours somewhere between sunrise and sunset. Both are set with 60 diamond minutes. No reward is offered. They are gone forever. View quote
Horace Mann
Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. View quote
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. View quote
Petrarch
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. View quote
Henry Miller
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us. View quote
Edward Bellamy
Where children are, there is the golden age. View quote
Novalis
Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. (Horace)
Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. View quote
William Shakespeare
Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. View quote
Karl Marx
The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Submission to the experimental data is the golden rule that dominates any scientific discipline. View quote
Maurice Allais
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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. View quote
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields. View quote
Jack Kerouac
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. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
For it was in the golden prime Of good Haroun Alraschid. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted. View quote
Bob Monkhouse
If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life. View quote
Tom Stoppard
I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... rules. View quote
Mr. T
Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity. View quote
Michael Chabon