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title: "23 Midas Quotes by 23 authors"
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> [Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/just-as-king-midas-turned-everything-to-gold-stalin-turned-everything/)

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/)

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> [That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back--' 'I hate that.' King Midas &…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rick-riordan/that-s-why-we-live-by-a-river-occasionally-i-forget-and-pat-lit-on/)

[Rick Riordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rick-riordan/)

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> [“I see her as a kind of Midas, turning everything she touched into imagination.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aldous-huxley/i-see-her-as-a-kind-of-midas-turning-everything-she-touched-into/)

[Aldous Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aldous-huxley/)

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> [You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/henny-youngman/you-have-the-midas-touch-everything-you-touch-turns-to-a-muffler/)

[Henny Youngman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/henny-youngman/)

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> [“It does not have walls splattered with gold leaf like King Midas has had a nosebleed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-rayner/it-does-not-have-walls-splattered-with-gold-leaf-like-king-midas-has/)

[Jay Rayner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-rayner/)

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> [DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maurice-wilkins/dna-is-like-midas-s-gold-everyone-who-touches-it-goes-mad/)

[Maurice Wilkins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maurice-wilkins/)

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> [I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/i-have-become-rather-like-king-midas-except-that-everything-turns-not/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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> [“Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/man-with-his-new-powers-became-rich-like-midas-but-all-that-he/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

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> [Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-wolcot/midas-they-say-possessed-the-art-of-old-of-turning-whatsoe-er-he/)

[John Wolcot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-wolcot/)

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> [Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-cowper/ten-thousand-casks-forever-dribbling-out-their-base-contents-touch-d/)

[William Cowper](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-cowper/)

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> [Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-joseph-oakeshott/like-midas-the-rationalist-is-always-in-the-unfortunate-position-of/)

[Michael Joseph Oakeshott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-joseph-oakeshott/)

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> [ I feel like Travis \[Stevens\] is just a Midas touch producer. Seemingly everything he touches turns to gold lately, so that was… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/barbara-crampton/i-feel-like-travis-stevens-is-just-a-midas-touch-producer-seemingly/)

[Barbara Crampton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/barbara-crampton/)

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> [“It was just her and Midas in here, tucked away from the world. Here she could turn quietly into glass, with only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ali-shaw/it-was-just-her-and-midas-in-here-tucked-away-from-the-world-here-she/)

[Ali Shaw](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ali-shaw/)

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> [Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-carlyle/midas-eared-mammonism-double-barrelled-dilettantism-and-their/)

[Thomas Carlyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle/)

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> [I don't have a good thing to say about Eric Bischoff or anything he ever did. Talk about the Midas touch, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bret-hart/i-don-t-have-a-good-thing-to-say-about-eric-bischoff-or-anything-he/)

[Bret Hart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bret-hart/)

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> [“This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey’s Paw version 2.0, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-l-monk/this-guy-was-beyond-lucky-he-was-midas-with-a-better-attorney-or-the/)

[John L. Monk](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-l-monk/)

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> [To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rudy-vallee/to-me-the-capacity-to-earn-money-has-never-been-a-measurement-of/)

[Rudy Vallee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rudy-vallee/)

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> [“There's an internal compass inside of me that laid still for so long, stuck behind its arc of glass, listless and without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/raven-kennedy/there-s-an-internal-compass-inside-of-me-that-laid-still-for-so-long/)

[Raven Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/raven-kennedy/)

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> [“The other story about Midas is that he was called upon to judge between the music of Pan and Apollo and found…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/caroline-taggart/the-other-story-about-midas-is-that-he-was-called-upon-to-judge/)

[Caroline Taggart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/caroline-taggart/)

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> [ Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man \[is\] so avid for… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/malcolm-muggeridge/accumulating-knowledge-is-a-form-of-avarice-and-lends-itself-to/)

[Malcolm Muggeridge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/malcolm-muggeridge/)

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> [It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alexander-berkman/it-is-the-system-rather-than-individuals-that-is-the-source-of/)

[Alexander Berkman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alexander-berkman/)

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> [The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-hirshfield/the-trick-though-is-to-not-lose-compassion-to-not-allow-the-sense-of/)

[Jane Hirshfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-hirshfield/)

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> [“The name Rihanna, Would never grow old, Whatever Rih touches Turns to Gold She definitely has "The Midas Touch”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charmaine-j-forde/the-name-rihanna-would-never-grow-old-whatever-rih-touches-turns-to/)

[Charmaine J Forde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charmaine-j-forde/)

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