Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or work:
“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)
“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)