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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."
"It is tact that is golden, not silence."
"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."
"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."
"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?"
"When you take into public ownership a profitable industry the profits soon disappear. The goose that laid the golden eggs goes broody. State geese are not great layers."
"Kindness is the golden thread that holds society together."
"The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere."
"Golden roofs break men's rest."
"Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity."
"The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule"
"Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future."
"I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people."
"Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love."
"Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is."
"A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid."
"Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs."
"The Golden Rule finds no limit of application in business."
"I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps."
"The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach."
