Gold Quote by Samuel Butler Download Open image “A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.” — Samuel Butler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gold Virtue
Over two thousand years ago, Aristotle taught us that money should be durable, divisible, consistent, convenient, and value in itself. It should be durable,… — Doug Casey Copy Share Image
There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses. — Philip Danforth Armour Copy Share Image
Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
But there's this one difference: one is gold put to the use of paving-stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic value: but if they are not polished, they certainly lose a great deal of their luster:… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you think something is shiny and gold, it tends to be rusted and bronze, but that's just the way it is, man. — Henry Cejudo Copy Share Image
No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold. — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
“Pure gold does not rust. Only gold alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the company of toxic… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Gold, n.: A soft malleable metal relatively scarce in distribution. It is mined deep in the earth by poor men who then give it… — Mike Harding Copy Share Image
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold ... that is, in large quantities. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“we must judge men not so much by what they, as by what they make us feel that they have it in them to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism. Whether it is or is not more efficacious I do not know. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Having, then, once introduced an element of inconsistency into his system, he was far too consistent not to be inconsistent consistently, and he lapsed… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Most paper money initially existed as a substitute for gold. That's what gave it value. But right now what gives a currency value is… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
With every product, the delta between the brand and the reality determines its power over the minds of consumers, and with Trump, that delta… — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Set the bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in thesky. — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
No matter what. Wherever your mind wanders, it seems to turn up at the same Field of Dreams. It's the vision you wake up… — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it… — Garet Garrett Copy Share Image
All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country. — PSY Copy Share Image
All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose. — Stacy London Copy Share Image