Golden quotes
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"Young playmates of the rose and daffodil, Be careful ere ye enter in, to fill Your baskets high With fennel green, and balm, and golden pines Savory latter-mint, and columbines."
"The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man."
"The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability."
"The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right."
"If the Internet turns out not to be the future of computing, we're toast. But if it is, we're golden."
"The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity."
"All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree."
"There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love."
"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."
"Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_."
"The very good people didn't convince me; I felt they'd never been tempted. But you knew; you understood; you had felt the world outside tugging at one with all its golden hands — and yet you hated the things it asks of one; you hated happiness bought by disloyalty and cruelty and indifference."
"POETRY: A sliver of the moon lost in the belly of a golden frog."
"The Golden Age was never the present age."
"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."
"[I] go to the Golden Globes, the Grammys, all the awards shows. Just stuff you would never get to do as a regular person were things that were really exciting for me."
"The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected."
"Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven."
"Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!"
"I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me."
"It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion."
