Quotes About Midas

#1. DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad.

Maurice Wilkins

#2. Legendary King Midas never knew the feel of silk or a human hand after everything he touched turned to gold. Humans are stuck in a similar Midas-like predicament: we can't directly experience the true texture of quantum reality because everything we touch turns to matter.

Nick Herbert

#3. I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

Albert Einstein

#4. You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.

Henny Youngman

#5. It was just her and Midas in here, tucked away from the world. Here she could turn quietly into glass, with only love to distract her.

Ali Shaw

#6. In a flash of anger, Midas grabbed a sod of earth and hurled it at the water, which broke into a hundred chained circles. Picturing Ida like the body in the bog made his heart seem to wilt and blow away. His face screwed through expressions.

Ali Shaw

#7. Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold.

C.S. Lewis

#8. If you walk on sunlight, bathe in moonlight, breathe in a golden air and exhale a Midas' touch; mark my words, those who exist in the shadows will try to pull you into the darkness with them. The last thing that they want is for you to see the wonder of your life because they can't see theirs.

C. JoyBell C.

#9. Midas, they say, possessed the art of old; Of turning whatsoe'er he touch'd to gold; This modern statesmen can reverse with ease - Touch them with gold, they'll turn to what you please.

John Wolcot

#10. Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

Michael Oakeshott

#11. Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ... man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#12. He traced my lower lip. I braced myself for the pain that was sure to follow because he was like a sadistic King Midas, turning everything he touched into pain.

Nenia Campbell

#13. It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.

Alexander Berkman

#14. Like King Midas, I am left with nothing
but this unreasonable hope
that, somehow, my strange life
and my lost family
will return
to normal.

Margarita Engle

#15. Trump, who presents himself as a modern Midas even when much of what he touches turns to dross, has studied the conventions of journalists and displays more genius at exploiting them to his advantage than anyone else I have ever known. More

David Cay Johnston

#16. Why yes, I can,' said Midas Mulligan, when he was asked whether he could name a person more evil than the man with a heart closed to pity. 'The man who uses another's pity for him as a weapon.

Ayn Rand

#17. The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.

Jane Hirshfield

#18. Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.

Ali Shaw

#19. Some people have the Midas touch, other's dip their fingers in sticky, permanent black ink, Smudged. Unlucky.

Amy Matayo

#20. I don't know what the opposite is of the Midas touch, but you shitbirds have it.

Michael Zarocostas

#21. Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#22. She only had a few coins to her name, but she had the Midas touch when it came to turning destitution into dreams.

Michael Schmicker

#23. Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

William Cowper

#24. That's why we live by a river. Occasionally, I forget and pat Lit on the back
'
'I hate that.'
King Midas & Lit

Rick Riordan

#25. Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

Thomas Carlyle

#26. Son of a Midas
You, sir, are a stupid-head
Here, have an ostrich

Rick Riordan

#27. Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass -
That secret to each fool - that he's an ass.
The truth once told (and whereby should we lie?),
The queen of Midas slept, and so may I.
You think this cruel? Take it for a rule,
No creature smarts so little as a fool.

Alexander Pope

#28. This guy was beyond lucky. He was Midas with a better attorney, or the owner of a Monkey's Paw version 2.0, or Richard Cory on Prozac.

John L. Monk

#29. If I could press a button and have all of Sequoia Capital on the Midas List, I would choose to do that over a honoring a single individual.

Douglas Leone

#30. Just after the Second World War Picasso bought a house in the South of France and paid for it with one still-life. Picasso has now in fact transcended the need for money. Whatever he wishes to own, he can acquire by drawing it. The truth has become a little like the fable of Midas.

John Berger

#31. The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha