Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Sometimes friends do foolish things. My father told me that true friends are like gold coins. Ships are wrecked by storms and… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
Words can't even describe how much Olympic medals means to me, because of all the hard work, sacrifice and effort I put… — Gabby Douglas Copy Share Image
If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool… — Peter Boettke Copy Share Image
It's better to be angry without paying for gold than to be angry after you paid. — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
To see someone manifest all the astral lights, to be surrounded by light, to have light emanating from their body, pulsing waves… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Standing on the podium at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta and receiving a gold medal was the crowning jewel in a… — Dominique Moceanu Copy Share Image
the three most common myths of modern romance: 1. Single men would prefer being married. 2. Married men actually leave their wives.… — Linda Sunshine Copy Share Image
At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next.… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She… — J. Ruth Gendler Copy Share Image
...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold. — David Clement-Davies Copy Share Image
Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Goldfish in Chinese restaurants are there to draw in the gold, the money. — May Pang Copy Share Image
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the… — Solomon Copy Share Image
Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the… — Alice Cary Copy Share Image
