Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.
The evangelicals. . . . If all they want is gold Cadillacs and sex and so on, no big problem.
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect
I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain people…. As one who believes in freedom and democracy for all, I honor the Red nation.
Markets need not be in sync with one another. Simultaneously, the bond market can be priced for sustained tough times, the equity market for a strong recovery, and gold for high inflation. Such an apparent disconnect is indefinitely sustainable.
IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique' to destroy the competition. . . . . IBM digs a big HOLE in the ground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT OF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all this gold, get over here fast. ' As soon as the competitor approaches the pot, he falls into the pit
Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.
There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow
An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to a brass ornament, the hands begin to shake. If it is changed to gold, he or she squints as if going blind. The abilities do not deteriorate, but belief in them does, as he or she allows the supposed value of an external reward to cloud the vision.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
It is the greenback which is unstable, and not bullion.
Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees. . .
Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
I will try to win the Olympics gold in London.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.
Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.
The words 'California's Gold' will no longer mean anything about me or about a television series. They will mean what California's Gold has always truly meant: not the literal gold nuggets that they pulled out of the earth, not the riches people got when they came here, but the dreams that brought people here and are still bringing people here.
Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies.