All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter Quotes

#1. All that is gold does not glitter...

J.R.R. Tolkien

#2. All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#3. While this might seem a bit abstract, these numbers are not arbitrary. They are symbols, which represent pieces of paper, which represent pieces of gold. Gold doesn't represent anything; its value is inherent in its glitter.

Colin MacLaughlin

#4. It is my mission as a pilgrim to act as a messenger expressing spiritual truths. It is a task which I accept joyfully, and I desire nothing in return, neither praise or glory, nor the glitter of silver and gold. I simply rejoice to be able to follow the whisperings of a Higher Will.

Peace Pilgrim

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

John Desmond Bernal

#6. I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill
Such a bright gold under my windowsill!
Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still?
Bless me! It's a daffodil!

Celia Thaxter

#7. Hill tops like hot iron glitter bright in the sun,
And the rivers we're eying burn to gold as they run;
Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air;
Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

John Clare

#8. He was dropped under a streetlamp, the only person left on the bus. A patch of mauled light. Gritty pavement, scarred with a million cigarette burns. Weeds and spit and oil. Place like this, the only glitter was the knife just before it sank in. Place like this, there wasn't any gold.

Rupert Thomson

#9. Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the noblest metal.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. All that glitters is sold as gold.

Ogden Nash

#11. It doesn't have to glitter to be gold.

Arthur Ashe

#12. It's not what you have on the outside that glitters in light, it's what you have on the inside that shines in the dark.

Anthony Liccione

#13. Fucking sympathy. Give him anger. Give him fear. Give him fuzzy-assed unicorns that shit glitter and gold-- just don't give him sympathy. Sympathy sucked a giant sack.

Abbie Roads

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

Nas

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

Francis Quarles

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

Lauren Oliver