Gold Pieces

Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or pieces:

“I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A quarter of an hour is worth a thousand pieces of gold.”
—Chinese proverb.