Midas Quotes

• 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

  Art, Political, Gold

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• Me he convertido más bien en el Rey Midas, salvo que todo no se convierte en oro, sino en un circo.

  Albert Einstein

  Kings, Gold, Circus

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• To me, the capacity to earn money has never been a measurement of success. It is my belief that people must develop a philosophy early in life which permits them to have as much pleasure, enjoyment and satisfaction now as is possible without injuring themselves or others. Money can help to do this, but it is not and must not become the sole aim of a person's existence. We all know what happened to King Midas.

  Rudy Vallee

  Success, Kings, Philosophy

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Kings, Gold, Mediocrity

  Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (1972). “The First Circle”

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

  Maurice Wilkins

  Dna, Mad, Gold

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

  Henny Youngman

  Divertido, Humor, Insulto

  Henny Youngman (1994). "Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks", Outlet

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• 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

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there's a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I'm gonna do it good; I'm going to bring it over the top.

  Sr. T

  Jobs, Cocky, Conceited

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• Acumular conocimientos es una forma de avaricia y se presta a otra versión de la historia de Midas ...el hombre [está] tan ávido de saber que todo lo que toca se convierte en hechos; su fe se convierte en teología; su amor, en lascivia; su sabiduría, en ciencia; persiguiendo el sentido, ignora la verdad.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Love Is, Men, Avid

  Malcolm Muggeridge (2005). “Seeing Through the Eye: Malcolm Muggeridge on Faith”, p.152, Ignatius Press

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• 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

  Kings, Hate, Rivers

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• 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

  Sports, Country, Mad

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.156, Routledge

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• 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

  Hands, House, Degradation

  Alexander Berkman (1912). “Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist”

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• I feel like Travis [Stevens] is just a Midas touch producer. Seemingly everything he touches turns to gold lately, so that was quite exciting looking at that prospect.

  Barbara Crampton

  Gold, Exciting, Producers

  Fuente: collider.com

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• 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

  Law, Wealth, Almighty

  Thomas Carlyle (1858). “Chartism: Past and Present. By Thomas Carlyle”, p.96

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• 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 Joseph Oakeshott

  Squares, Meals, Able

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