Quotes with gold-hoarding

Quotes 121 till 125 of 125.

• Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.

  Sir William Osler
  Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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• You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

  Ben Harper
  American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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• A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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• If our dreams can last, then we could turn our time and place to gold.

  Towards A Canada of Light Third Meditation, p. 161

  B. W. Powe
  Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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• It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

  Thomas Fuller
  English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• philosopher
• signet-ring
• difference
• receiving
• intrinsic
• alterable

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