I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl. ~By Princess Margaret ~
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. ~By Karl Marx ~
Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over. ~By Sugar Ray Leonard ~
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. ~By Bernard de Mandeville ~
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another. ~By Art Linkletter ~
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. ~By Bertrand Russell ~
By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. ~By Sextus Propertius ~
Where children are, there is the golden age. ~By Novalis ~
Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times. ~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold. ~By John C. McGinley ~
We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will all be used. And we have resolved that they shall not defeat us. We shall arm. We shall meet fraud and falsehood with defiance, and force with force, if need be. ~By Denis Kearney ~
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise. ~By Gwendolyn Brooks ~
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life. ~By William Samuel Johnson ~
We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians. ~By Graeme Murphy ~
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine. ~By Jeremy Taylor ~
Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow. ~By Susanna Moodie ~
There are no golden geese. There are only fat geese eating the food that could nourish more athletic opportunities for women. ~By Donna A. Lopiano ~
Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust. ~By Jesse Owens ~
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. ~By Paracelsus ~
Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold. ~By Audrey Meadows ~
There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. ~By David Ogilvy ~
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ~By Adam Smith ~
Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish. ~By Chevy Chase ~
They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody. ~By Michael Johnson ~
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed. ~By Brian Tracy ~
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. ~By Cyril Connolly ~
Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms. I said that some time ago, and today I do not think I would add one word. ~By Laurence Olivier ~
Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series. ~By Neve Campbell ~
It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay. ~By Cory Doctorow ~
I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read. ~By Jonathan Carroll ~
It is tact that is golden, not silence. ~By Samuel Butler ~
Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine. ~By Isabella Bird ~
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps. ~By James Cash Penney ~
Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. ~By Sextus Propertius ~
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.' ~By Michael Phelps ~
If you hit a midget on the head with a stick, he turns into 40 gold coins. ~By Patton Oswalt ~
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. ~By R. Buckminster Fuller ~
As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess. ~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail. ~By Martin Luther ~
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves. ~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing. ~By Tim Cahill ~
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time. ~By Sonny Rollins ~
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot. ~By Edward Koch ~
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. ~By Woody Allen ~
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure. ~By Cecil Beaton ~
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip. ~By J. M. Barrie ~
The film was made in 1973. It was a golden time for people to experiment without risking, for example, AIDS. Today one has to be so much more careful and I don't think a character like that could exist now. ~By Sylvia Kristel ~
I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. ~By Dean Koontz ~
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do. ~By George Saintsbury ~
I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold. ~By George Linnaeus Banks ~
I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars. ~By Mort Walker ~
Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. ~By John Milton ~
Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them? ~By Eric Heiden ~
Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal. ~By John Dean ~
And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?' ~By Javier Bardem ~
Golden slumbers kiss your eyes, Smiles awake you when you rise. ~By Thomas Dekker ~
Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection. ~By Bill Mumy ~
I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe. ~By Sharon Stone ~
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world. ~By John Evelyn ~
As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time. ~By John Mason ~
Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic. ~By Brenda Blethyn ~
When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue. ~By Carroll Quigley ~
And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun. ~By Roy Bean ~
I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax. ~By Pete Seeger ~
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. ~By Douglas Hyde ~
In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself. ~By Bob Kane ~
The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. ~By Lord Acton ~
The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint. ~By Reggie Jackson ~
There was a golden retriever who saved countless lives on September 11 by going back in to find people. His companion was in a wheelchair. He got him out and kept going back in to save others. ~By Linda Blair ~
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. ~By Kin Hubbard ~
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. ~By Ludwig van Beethoven ~
It goes back to a style of moviemaking I remember seeing as a child, in movies like The Man With The Golden Arm, which I think was shot all on a sound stage. ~By Debbie Allen ~
I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists. ~By Harry Crosby ~
The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you! ~By Louise Hart ~
It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media. ~By Bill Mumy ~
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. ~By Plato ~
We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry. ~By Joseph P. Kennedy ~
A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that. ~By Rachel Griffiths ~
I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with. ~By Kurt Russell ~
I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s. ~By Jonny Greenwood ~
A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. ~By J. R. R. Tolkien ~
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass. ~By Ben Harper ~
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl. ~By Robert Plant ~
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only. ~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism. ~By Josef Skvorecky ~
I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal. ~By Alexis Arguello ~
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. ~By Samuel Johnson ~
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life. ~By Edwin Markham ~
The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value. ~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
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. ~By George Eliot ~
It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic. ~By John Leeson ~
Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. ~By Paracelsus ~
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water. ~By Chief Joseph ~
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. ~By Euripides ~
I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold. ~By Greg LeMond ~
Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders. ~By Joe Gold ~
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such. ~By Henry Miller ~
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. ~By Alfred Marshall ~
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. ~By Rene Daumal ~
In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not. ~By Samuel E. Morison ~
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