Famous quotes containing the word golden:
“Go, throng each others drawing-rooms,
Ye idols of a petty clique:
Strut your brief hour in borrowed plumes,
And make your penny-trumpets squeak:
Deck your dull talk with pilfered shreds
Of learning from a noble time,
And oil each others little heads
With mutual Flatterys golden slime.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
“I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
But a golden nutmeg and a silver pear;”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th18th century. I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear (l. 12)
“What are we hoping to get out of it, whats it all in aid ofis it really just for the sake of a gloved hand waving at you from a golden coach?”
—John Osborne (19291994)
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