#gold

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#behaves #being #care #children #culture

I want to replace my knees with miniature Rube Goldberg machines. That way you'll know how difficult it is for me to simply walk out of your life. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#rube-goldberg #funny

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#gold #himself #his #man #solid

I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#being #directors #everything #gilt #gold

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#feel #goldfish #helpless #owner #sick

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith. ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#backs #branded #day #foreheads #give

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers. ↗

— George Humphrey

#egg #golden #goose #lays #make

Don't be so humble - you are not that great. ↗

— Golda Meir

#golda #meir #true #funny

The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get offered up as human sacrifices, when they prayed to Zeus to save them. So Zeus sent this magical flying ram with golden wool, which picked them up in Greece and carried them all the way to Colchis in Asia Minor. Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important." "It was probably important to her. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#gold #humor #percy-jackson #humor

Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#build #financial #full #golden #means