Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or pans:
“An inch of gold can not buy an inch of time.”
—Chinese proverb.
“For we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers, but children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted, and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)