A Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

All is not gold that glitters, Pleasure seems sweet, but proves a glass of bitters

Oliver Goldsmith

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Oliver Goldsmith
Irish - Novelist
November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774

All that glitters is not gold.

William Shakespeare

My treasure chest is filled with gold. Gold . . . gold . . . gold . . . Vagabond's gold and drifter's gold . . . Worthless, priceless, dreamer's gold . . . Gold of the sunset . . . gold of the dawn . . .Gold of the showertrees on my lawn . . . Poet's gold and artist's gold . . . Gold that can not be bought or sold - Gold.

Don Blanding

All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.

John Dryden

All that glitters is sold as gold.

Ogden Nash

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

Seneca the Younger

Bacchus ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain. Bachus's blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure, Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

John Dryden

All that glitters may not be gold, but at least it contains free electrons.

John Desmond Bernal

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

Francis Quarles

Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,- Sweet is pleasure after pain.

John Dryden

Riches, honors and pleasure are the sweets which destroy the mind's appetite for heavenly food; poverty, disgrace and pain are the bitters which restore it.

George Horne

Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.

Nas

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

Terry Pratchett

there is no pleasure so sweet as the pleasure of spending money but the pleasure of writing is longer. There is no denying that.

Gertrude Stein

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

Lauren Oliver

Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.

Edgar Guest

Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

Miguel de Cervantes

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