Gold Men

Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or men:

“We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses’ instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

“Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)