William Shakespeare Quotes
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
William Shakespeare
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Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson
Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
Abraham Lincoln
Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
Fernando Botero
I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
Man Ray
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
Larry Wall
All men cannot go to college, but some men must; every isolated group or nation must have its yeast, must have, for the talented few, centers of training where men are not so mystified and befuddled by the hard and necessary toil of earning a living as to have no aims higher than their bellies and no God greater than Gold.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function.
Oscar Hijuelos
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.
P. J. O'Rourke
There is an indolence in griefWhich will not even seek relief. What is the toil, or care, or pain,The human heart cannot sustain?Enough if struggling can createA change or colour in our fate;But where's the spirit that can copeWith listless suffering, when hope,The last of misery's allies,Sickens of its sweet self, and dies.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
Eddie Bernice Johnson
There's no reason why fiscal responsibility is a Democrat or a Republican point of view. It ought to be all of our points of view.
Gary Herbert
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
William Shakespeare
