Best Midas Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Mythos - The Greek Myths Retold

“There's an internal compass inside of me that laid still for so long, stuck behind its arc of glass, listless and without hope. But it's been spinning since the moment I left, begging me to follow my instincts. To move toward something better.”

Hope Fiction Self Love Stuck Follow Finding Your Way Beg Midas Listless

Book:Gleam

Source: Gleam

“Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.”

Law Universe Wealth Thousand Almighty Midas

Book:Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle

Source: Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle

“Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!”

Country States Sports Forever Drink Thousand Ten Gold Mad Fingers Ministers Midas

Book:William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

Source: William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems

“I feel like Travis [Stevens] is just a Midas touch producer. Seemingly everything he touches turns to gold lately, so that was quite exciting looking at that prospect.”

Feels Turns Gold Exciting Producers Midas

Author:Barbara Crampton

“It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.”

Hands Turns House Individual Environment Source Prison Manifestation Pollution Brutal Cursed Degradation Midas

Book:Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

“I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.”

Turns Kings Gold Circus Midas

Author:Albert Einstein

“The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.”

World Way Mean Real Feelings Turns Stuff Loses Simple Compassion Awareness Greed Tricks Useless Absurdity Spirited Mean Spirited Real Feelings Midas Useless Stuff

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.”

Gold Mad Dna Midas

Author:Maurice Wilkins

“I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there's a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I'm gonna do it good; I'm going to bring it over the top.”

Way Feels Jobs Used Taught Projects Hook Muhammad Cocky Conceited Over The Top Bodyguard Hook Up Midas

Author:Mr. T

“Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.”

Men Facts Stories Form Turns Love Is Theology Versions His Love Avarice Avid Lechery Midas

Book:Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith

Source: Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith

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

Hate Forget Kings Rivers I Hate Live By Lit Midas

Author:Rick Riordan

“Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.”

Kings Gold Mediocrity Midas

Book:The First Circle

Source: The First Circle

“Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.”

Art Political Turns Modern Please Gold Ease Possessed Reverse Statesmen Midas

Author:John Wolcot

“Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.”

Able Position Meals Squares Unfortunate Abstraction Transforming Midas

Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott

“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.”

People Knows Persons Philosophy Helping Success Belief Pleasure Existence Happened Kings Capacity Aim Satisfaction Enjoyment Permit Sole Measurement Midas

Author:Rudy Vallee

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