Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow."
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Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way."
Hillel the Elder
Religious Leader, Scholar
"Golden Rule”: “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."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."
Aristotle Onassis
Shipping magnate
"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."
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"Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning."
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"Silence isn't golden. It's yellow."
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"Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week."
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"The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception."
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"I don't meditate. Silence is golden though."
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"Lastly (and this is, perhaps, the golden rule), no woman should marry a man who does not smoke."
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"Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful."
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"Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself."
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"The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply"
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"There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!"
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"I've always felt I carried a golden secret, a wonderful secret. Every time I thought about it, it made me feel warm inside and good."
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"I believe in the Golden Rule. I believe in practicing it."
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"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"
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"I was a drug dealer in Ibiza at 15. I did not excel in drug dealing - I was terrible at it. Golden rule with drug dealing - don't get too enthusiastic with your own merchandise."
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"Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg."
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"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."
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"It is tact that is golden, not silence."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?"
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