Kassia quotes

“You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold.”
-- Kassia

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“Wealth covers sin - the poor / Are naked as a pin.”
-- Kassia

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“Poverty? Wealth? Seek neither -- / One causes swollen heads, / The other, swollen bellies.”
-- Kassia

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“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”

“We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.”

“Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go.”

“Old friend,' said Cadvan, filling another glass for himself and sniffing its rich smell. 'If we do not trust one another, we are already defeated.”

“We grow too old to lose old friends ...”

“Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.”

Source : Abraham Cowley (1721). “([2], lxviii, 372 p.)”, p.44

“I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.”

Source : "17-Year-Old Gold Medalist Vows To Dominate The Figure Skating World" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. February 21, 2014.

“It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.”

“Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.”

“Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.”

Source : "Gold is again proving its value in a risky world" by George Trefgarne, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 23, 2002.