Golden famous quotes
06-17-2025
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And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.
-- Adam Schiff -
By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.
-- Agesilaus II -
Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
-- Alan Alda -
At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
-- Alan Seeger -
It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it
-- Aldo Leopold -
You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
-- Alexander Payne -
The finance enchains with golden bonds states and peoples, the economy becomes nomadic, the life uprooted.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
You ain't no Hepburn and I ain't no Fonda, but if you were drowning in Golden Ponda, mouth to mouth I'd resuscitate you.
-- Alice Cooper -
You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness." Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
-- Anne Carson -
There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!
-- Anne Frank -
Satanism advocates practicing a modified form of the Golden Rule. Our interpretation of this rule is: "Do unto others as they do unto you"; because if you "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you," and they, in turn, treat you badly, it goes against human nature to continue to treat them with consideration. You should do unto others as you would have them do unto you, but if your courtesy is not returned, they should be treated with the wrath they deserve.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
I've just been a machine for making money. I seem to have spent my life in a golden tunnel looking for the outlet which would lead to happiness. But the tunnel kept going on. After my death there will be nothing left.
-- Aristotle Onassis -
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
-- Art Linkletter -
Truth is a golden thread, seen here and there In small bright specks upon the visible side Of our strange being's party-coloured web.
-- Arthur Hugh Clough -
I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.
-- Barack Obama -
Every thought is a seed. If you plant crab apples, don't count on harvesting Golden Delicious.
-- Bill Meyer -
It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.
-- Bill Mumy -
Nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
-- Billy Crystal -
Internalize the Golden Rule of sales that says: All things being equal, people will do business with, and refer business to, those people they know, like and trust.
-- Bob Burg -
In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself.
-- Bob Kane -
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
-- Bob Monkhouse -
Even if I hadn't have been nominated for an Oscar, to have won the Golden Glove was just fantastic.
-- Brenda Blethyn -
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
-- Brian Tracy -
Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.
-- Brian Tracy -
No sooner than I had begun to read this great work [Frasier, The Golden Bough], than I became immersed in it and enslaved by it. I realized then that anthropology, as presented by Sir James Frasier, is a great science, worthy of as much devotion as any of her elder and more exact sister studies, and I became bound to the service of Frazerian anthropology.
-- Bronislaw Malinowski -
When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?
-- C. S. Lewis -
The days of the future stand in front of us Like a line of candles all alight Golden and warm and lively little candles.
-- C.P. Cavafy -
POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog.
-- Carl Sandburg -
When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe,
-- Chadwick Boseman -
A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.
-- Chance the Rapper -
The Golden Rule of Habit Change: You can't extinguish a bad habit, you can only change it.
-- Charles Duhigg -
Golden hours of vision come to us in this present life, when we are at our best, and our faculties work together in harmony.
-- Charles Fletcher Dole -
The Golden Rule works like gravitation.
-- Charles Fletcher Dole -
No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.
-- Cheryl Strayed -
All I can say is that with 'The Golden Compass,' I didn't get to make the movie I had planned to make. When I look at the film, at the casting and certain scenes, I'm very happy. As for the final product, I can't vouch for that.
-- Chris Weitz -
You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
In moments of considerable strain, I tend to take to bread-and-butter pudding. There is something about the blandness of soggy bread, the crispness of the golden outer crust and the unadulterated pleasure of a lightly set custard that makes the world seem a better place to live.
-- Clement Freud -
Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.
-- Colleen McCullough -
Every artistic form has its golden age, and unfortunately I think the golden age for whatever I do probably ended about 1990.
-- Daryl Hall -
The mismanagement of American newspapering is quite remarkable. But all of the fellows responsible are now on a golf course in Hilton Head or some such (place), having secured their bonuses and golden-parachute buyouts.
-- David Simon -
The golden rule of friendship is to listne to others as you would have them listen to you.
-- David W Augsburger -
I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.
-- Dean Cain -
I did a 'Golden Girls' once, which shot in front of an audience, and that went well. I had a good time. But I need an audience, for comedy at least.
-- Dick Van Dyke -
Joe Lieberman may be Moses on the stump, but when it comes to policies and votes, he boogies with the Golden Calf.
-- Don Feder -
Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence.
-- Donald Barthelme -
Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
Again the violet of our early days Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, And kindles into fragrance at his blaze.
-- Ebenezer Elliott -
Istanbul owes its extraordinary situation to Golden Horn, Marmara Sea and The Bosphorus.
-- Edmondo De Amicis -
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.
-- Edmund Burke -
At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Fondnesse it were for any being free, To covet fetters, though they golden bee.
-- Edmund Spenser -
Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
-- Edward Bellamy -
The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
-- Ellen Glasgow -
Read The Golden Key several times. Do exactly what it says, and if you are persistent enough you will overcome any difficulty.
-- Emmet Fox -
I feel great that I've been given a chance in the golden years of my life. To me, it's the last battle, and I've been given a chance to get stuck in some good armament, some good power, and there's a chance that now I can finish off my working years with my head held high.
-- Eric Burdon -
The Golden Arches are now more widely recognized than the Christian cross.
-- Eric Schlosser -
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
-- Ernest Gaines -
Every person is a golden link in the chain of my good.
-- Florence Scovel Shinn -
The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.
-- Frances Mayes -
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the throne of God.
-- Frances Power Cobbe -
Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.
-- Francis Quarles -
He lifted me up and held me close against him, my head on his shoulder. At that moment I loved him. In the morning light he was as golden, as soft, as gentle as myself, and he would protect me.
-- Francoise Sagan -
And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.
-- Frank Dempster Sherman -
The golden rule when reading the menu is, if you cannot pronounce it, you cannot afford it.
-- Frank Muir -
I am keeping with tradition today. After I learned of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's make it the orthodontist.
-- Frankie Muniz -
Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat in respect to your pursuit of excellence. Everything, regardless of size or intent, has bottom-line consequences; therefore, everything counts - this is the golden rule of excellence.
-- Gary Ryan -
Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
-- Georg Trakl -
Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer.
-- George Arnold -
The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.
-- George Eliot -
That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest.
-- George Eliot -
The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.
-- George M. Humphrey -
The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.
-- George Meredith -
The shadow of human life is traced upon a golden ground of immortal hope.
-- George Stillman Hillard -
There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students were even better. In the old days, if you offered a graduate student a thiamine-deficient diet, he gladly went on it, for that was the only way he could eat. Science is getting to be more and more difficult.
-- George Wald -
Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.
-- Ginger Rogers -
No-thing less splendid than a golden sepulchre would have suited so noble a heart.
-- Giovanni Boccaccio -
There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society
-- Gordon Brown -
My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.
-- Gordon Brown -
A person with a golden heart is filled with love and likes to see something that he starts completed and done well.
-- Harold Klemp -
I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
-- Harold Prince -
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
-- Harry Emerson Fosdick -
My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.
-- Harvey Mackay -
Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country.
-- Helen Dunmore -
I feel as though my life is bathed in golden sunlight. And the really wonderful thing is that I know it.
-- Helen McCrory -
Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
Golden Ruleâ€: “That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.
-- Hillel the Elder -
The presentation of the Golden Badge of the Movement is the highest honor the Third Reich has to offer.
-- Hjalmar Schacht -
I'm putting my place in the universe into perspective. I'm stardust. I'm golden brown. I'm just one small bit in a vast expanse.
-- Holly Goldberg Sloan
