Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.

Love is the only gold.

Gold for friends, Lead for foes.

Better to get wisdom than gold.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

All that glitters is not gold; all that wander are not lost.

Like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.

A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

Not being beautiful was the true blessing... Not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. The pretty girl has a handicap to overcome.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.

Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

Sometimes I pause and sadly think of all the things that might have been. Of all the golden chances I let slip by, And which never returned again. It fills me with gloom when I ponder this, Till I look on the other side. How I might have been completely engulfed by misfortune's surging tide.

To be successful, a woman has to be better at her job than a man.

We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

To the illumined man or woman, a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same.

I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

THE GOLDEN RULE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The one who has the gold makes the rules.

The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- ''I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars.''

Many people do not realize that the snowshoe can be used for a great many things besides walking on snow. For instance, it can be used to carry pancakes from the stove to the breakfast table. Also, it can be used to carry uneaten pancakes from the table to the garbage. Finally, it can be used as a kind of stainer, where you force pancakes through the strings to see if a piece of gold got in a pancake somehow.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

A handful of friends is worth more than a wagon of gold.

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.

Those who do not know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.

Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

If beauty was gold you would be a treasure, my love..

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world.

Goldenstern's Rules: 1. Always hire a rich attorney 2. Never buy from a rich salesman.