“Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.” WantWellsArtGracePoetAdvantageGoldWitNakedPainterJewelsOrnaments Author:Alexander Pope
“Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.” CountryStandardsAdvantageGoldMethodInvestingInternationalSettingSettingsSilverNeighbourEfficacyVariance Book:The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes Source: The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes
“What has patriotism come to be but greed and false pride, when the only way it can show itself is by shedding blood to gain gold? More economic advantage, more territory, more power.” WayShowsBloodEconomicPrideGainsAdvantageGoldGreedPatriotismTerritoryShedding BloodFalse Pride Book:The Hounds of Spring Source: The Hounds of Spring
“I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.” IfsGivingHas BeensBookJoyReadingMemoriesFieldsGiving UpAdvantageGoldPursuitIf I CouldOccupationReading BooksExplorersMisers Author:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.” HandsEarthGivenBloodAdvantageAll ThingsGoldInstrumentsRemarkableSilverIronProvidenceSlaughterGold And SilverBowels Author:Seneca the Younger
“You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.” IfsThinkingWinningFunAdvantageGoldWinnerRememberedSilverRunnersRunner Up Author:Simon Cowell
“Not only America but all countries should think together about how the enormous might of the sole remaining superpower should be used. We need a leadership that is based on partnership, a leadership that unites nations and makes it possible to solve the problems of the globe together. Otherwise, we will have another Gold Rush for a superpower that wants to gain even greater advantages, that wants to gain an absolutely new position for itself. That would lead to a perverse utopia.” ThinkingWantNeedsShouldCountryProblemMightTogetherAmericaUsedNationsGreaterPositionGainsAdvantageGoldSolveEnormousSolePartnershipGlobesUtopiaSuperpowerGold RushNew Position Author:Mikhail Gorbachev
“Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.” FoundVoiceAdvantageGoldDiscoveringExhaustedVeinsSpecialty Author:W. P. Kinsella
“True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed; and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials; then it is that true faith appears much more precious than gold, and upon this account is "found to praise and honour and glory.” RealFoundChristianityVirtueDivineGloryAdvantageGoldAccountsPraiseLovelyTrialsHonourOppressedTrue FaithReal Christianity Book:The Works of Jonathan Edwards Source: The Works of Jonathan Edwards