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Midas QUOTES

Midas QUOTES

1 " Nevertheless statesmen are still greatly exercised by the problem of the international distribution of money. For hundreds of years, the Midas Theory, systematized by Mercantilism, has been the rule followed by governments in taking measures of commercial policy. In spite of Hume, Smith, and Ricardo, it still dominates men's minds more than would be expected. Phoenix-like, it rises again and again from its own ashes. "

― Ludwig von Mises , The Theory of Money and Credit

2 " 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 , The Girl With Glass Feet

3 " Love’s time’s beggar, but even a single hour,
bright as a dropped coin, makes love rich.
We find an hour together, spend it not on flowers
or wine, but the whole of the summer sky and a grass ditch.

For thousands of seconds we kiss; your hair
like treasure on the ground; the Midas light
turning your limbs to gold. Time slows, for here
we are millionaires, backhanding the night

so nothing dark will end our shining hour,
no jewel hold a candle to the cuckoo spit
hung from the blade of grass at your ear,
no chandelier or spotlight see you better lit

than here. Now. Time hates love, wants love poor,
but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw. "

― Carol Ann Duffy , Rapture

4 " 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 , Atlas Shrugged

5 " 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. "

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

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , The First Circle

7 " 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 , Kick (Jenkins Cycle, #1)

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

― C.S. Lewis , English Literature in the Sixteenth Century: Excluding Drama (Oxford History of English Literature Series)