(1853 quotes found)
“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.”
Adam Smith
“Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold.”
Portuguese Proverb
“The thing with kids is, if they want to grab for the gold ring, you have to let themdo it, and not say anything. If they fall off, they fall off, but it's bad if you say anything to them.”
J. D. Salinger
“Love is the only gold.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“We met Mr. Scrappy, we saw the boys in Good Charlotte — we've seen a lot of gold teeth.”
Billie Joe Armstrong
“Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.”
William Moulton Marston
“The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself -- the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us -- that's where it's at.”
Jesse Owens
“We shall not bring back a single bit of gold or silver, not a gem, nor any coal or iron. We shall not find a single foot of earth that can be planted with crops to raise food. It's no use. So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.”
George Leigh Mallory
“Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!”
Bob Dylan
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