Gold Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gold Praise Scarcity
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Human praise is like Monopoly money, It feels good to be rich for a moment. But in reality that currency has no value. You… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it… — James Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves. — Joseph P. Farrell Copy Share Image
Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtue of others, and due unto our own from all whom malice hath not made mutes,… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
