Quotes & Sayings About King Midas

Like King Midas, I am left with nothing
but this unreasonable hope
that, somehow, my strange life
and my lost family
will return
to normal. — Margarita Engle

To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop a philosophy early in life which permits them to have as much pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction now as is possible without injuring themselves or others. Money can help to do this, but it is not and must not become the sole aim of a person's existence. We all know what happened to King Midas. — Rudy Vallee

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. — Albert Einstein

Everything is always my fault. I touch things and they crumple into shit, like the opposite of King Midas and his gold finger. If I was in a fairy tale, I would be called "PooFinger", and everyone would shun me and make me go live in some naff shack under a bridge, telling scary stories to all the children in the kingdom about the wench who turns everything to shit, just by touching it. — Holly Bourne

Legendary King Midas never knew the feel of silk or a human hand after everything he touched turned to gold. Humans are stuck in a similar Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true texture of quantum reality because everything we touch turns to matter. — Nick Herbert

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

He traced my lower lip. I braced myself for the pain that was sure to follow because he was like a sadistic King Midas, turning everything he touched into pain. — Nenia Campbell

That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back
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'I hate that.'
King Midas & Lit — Rick Riordan