Gold Leaves

Famous quotes containing the words gold and/or leaves:

    England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this private sea; but no bark from them has ventured out of sight of land, though it is without doubt the direct way to India.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    When a leopard dies, it leaves its skin; when a person dies, he leaves his reputation.
    Chinese proverb.