Top 40 Gild Quotes
#1. Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
Susanna Moodie
#2. True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.
James Ellis
#3. The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
James Russell Lowell
#4. If you do a smoky eye, chances are you will not want to do a strong lip as well. It's never good to gild the lily.
Brad Goreski
#6. We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?
Nicolas Chamfort
#7. WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.
Michael Drayton
#8. I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
John Dryden
#9. If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.
John C. McGinley
#10. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily ... is wasteful and ridiculous excess
William Shakespeare
#11. I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
Henry David Thoreau
#12. There is a rabble among the gentry as well as the commonalty; a sort of plebeian heads whose fancy moves with the same wheel as these men?in the same level with mechanics, though their fortunes do sometimes gild their infirmities and their purses compound for their follies.
Thomas Browne
#13. Other men used their effete faiths and mean faculties with a high moral purpose. The Venetian gave the most earnest faith, and the lordliest faculty, to gild the shadows of an antechamber, or heighten the splendours of a holiday.
John Ruskin
#15. Whiles others fish with craft for great opinion, I with great truth catch mere simplicity; Whilst some with cunning gild their copper crowns, With truth and plainness I do wear mine bare.
William Shakespeare
#16. Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.
Philip Sidney
#17. The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendor cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate.
Samuel Johnson
#18. Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet shall gild with beautiful gold gleams,
And shoot the shadows through and through with light?
What matters one lost vision of the night?
Let the dream go! ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#19. What art can paint or gild any object in after life with the glow which nature gives to the first baubles of childhood? St. Peter's cannot have the magical power over us that the red and gold covers of our first picture-book possessed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#20. No radiant pearl, which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's wars. Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.
Erasmus Darwin
#21. Even every ray of hope destroyed and not a wish to gild the gloom.
Robert Burns
#22. My favorite way to cook trout is whole, bone-in, on the grill. The fish are stuffed with sliced lemons and herb sprigs, brushed with oil, and cooked over fairly hot coals until the skin is crisp and the flesh is moist and flaky. Go ahead and gild the lily by adding a sauce.
Tom Douglas
#23. Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro' the spirit's gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#24. History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future
Morris L. West
#25. For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.
William Shakespeare
#26. Every morning I stand here and watch the sun gild the trees and the grottoes. It's like drawing a breath before the day begins in earnest.
Dominic Smith
#27. It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. But she was too big to be a thief, too honest to be an assassin, too intelligent to be a wife, and too proud to enter the only other female profession generally available.
Terry Pratchett
#30. Good women are rare too, none of them have come close
Drake
#31. You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.
Barry Long
#32. It is utterly naive, futile, uninformed - to think that our species is exceptional. So designated to master the beasts of the Earth, as in the Book of Genesis!
Joyce Carol Oates
#33. Love casts out fear, for when we know we are loved, we are not afraid. Whoever has God's perfect love, fear is gone out of the universe for him.
A.W. Tozer
#34. I think that as long as you have one decent parent ... maybe you should consider cutting the poison out of your life.
Brenna Aubrey
#35. A girl? Her mother looked at her, curiously, as if the word were unknown to her; ancient and puzzling as an artifact behind a glass encasement.
Abby Slovin
#36. I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
Patrick Wilson
#37. All cynics are disappointed idealists. The more stars in the eyes, the harder the fall.
Josh Lanyon
#38. I think different games have a different chemical release in your brain as far as reward goes. I like making puzzle games, just because I know I'm kinda good at it, and they really are superfun to work on.
Kim Swift
#40. My mother was really my partner in every project that I had. She was just the great enabler of my dreams.
Diane Keaton
