Midas Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them… — John Wolcot
• Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
• To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop a philosophy early… — Rudy Vallee
• Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go. — Thomas Carlyle
• Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink,… — William Cowper
• Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring… — Douglas Leone
• If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in… — C. JoyBell C.

Who Wrote These Midas Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Midas Quotes as follows:

• 1 Midas Quote by John Wolcot
• 1 Midas Quote by Michael Joseph Oakeshott
• 1 Midas Quote by Rudy Vallee
• 1 Midas Quote by Thomas Carlyle
• 1 Midas Quote by William Cowper
• 1 Midas Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• 1 Midas Quote by Douglas Leone
• 1 Midas Quote by C. JoyBell C.