Midas Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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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 - Touch them…
— John Wolcot
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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 abstraction; he can…
— Michael Joseph Oakeshott
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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 a philosophy early…
— Rudy Vallee
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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 universe to go.
— Thomas Carlyle
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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 sport away. Drink,…
— William Cowper
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Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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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
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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: