Gold Proverbs Quotes & Sayings

How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver (Proverbs 16:16 NKJV). — T.D. Jakes

No literary form is more revealing, more spontaneous or more individual than a letter. — P.D. James

though the melody kept putting its hooks into me and dragging me with it mentally so that I was dancing in my head against my will. And — Anne Rice

Grace is as good as gold. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I turned my face to him and he kissed me, an unspoken need on his lips. — Cyndi Tefft

As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. - PROVERBS 11:22 — Rachel Held Evans

Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened. — Andrew Carnegie

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. — E.A. Bucchianeri

To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the North, an anthem of defiance. — Pat Conroy

If speaking is silver, then listening is gold. — Turkish Proverbs

There's nothing like a play. It's so immediate and every performance is different. As an actor, you have the most control over what the audience is seeing. — David Schwimmer

How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver! — Anonymous

If the educated and influential classes in a community either practice or connive at the systematic violation of laws that seem to them to cross their convenience, what can they expect when the lesson that convenience or a supposed class interest is a sufficient cause for lawlessness has been well learned by the ignorant classes? — Benjamin Harrison

If the Negro was to learn, he must teach himself, and the most effective help that could be given him was the establishment of schools to train Negro teachers. This conclusion was slowly but surely reached by every student of the situation until simultaneously, in widely separated regions, without consultation or systematic plan, there arose a series of institutions designed to furnish teachers for the untaught. Above the sneers of critics at the obvious defects of this procedure must ever stand its one crushing rejoinder: in a single generation they put thirty thousand black teachers in the South; they wiped out the illiteracy of the majority of the black people of the land, and they made Tuskegee possible. — W.E.B. Du Bois

I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring. — Ice-T

Good things come to those who love; better things come to those who act with love. — Debasish Mridha

My people never dreamed of a world like this. Of having so much without backbreaking, debilitating work. And yet for all the physical improvements, people are still people. They're killing each other to get more to prove a point only the killer understands. Still brutalizing and torturing each other over things that in another hundred years won't even matter. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I wish I had heard him more clearly: an oblique confession is always a plea. — James Baldwin

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

It is good to have friends both in Heaven and Hell. — George Herbert