Midas Quotes

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

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

Everything is always my fault. I touch things and they crumple into shit, like the opposite of King Midas and his gold finger. If I was in a fairy tale, I would be called "PooFinger", and everyone would shun me and make me go live in some naff shack under a bridge, telling scary stories to all the children in the kingdom about the wench who turns everything to shit, just by touching it. ~ Holly Bourne

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

Story of my life: I am so self-destructive, I turn solutions into problems. Everything I touch, I ruin. I'm Midas in reverse. ~ Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't know what the opposite is of the Midas touch, but you shitbirds have it. ~ Michael Zarocostas

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus. ~ Albert Einstein

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

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

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

The key to finding financial freedom is to unlock your entrepreneurial intelligence, work your network and lead the time. ~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

DNA is like Midas's gold, everyone who touches it goes mad. ~ Maurice Wilkins

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

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

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

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

Oh, I'm just a simple girl,' she says with a sarcastic smile, 'who just happens to complicate everything she touches. I'm like Midas, only whatever I touch turns to drama. ~ Andrea Cremer And David Levithan

From Zachary Blake? Not a chance in hell. All his cases are high-profile. And these days, he's got a Midas touch. Every case he touches turns to gold. Blake is on a personal crusade for civil justice and safety - truth, justice, and the American way, don't you know? Guns are an excellent target issue for someone like him. ~ Mark M. Bello

I'm the crown prince of Midas and captain of the world's most deadly ship. ~ Alexandra Christo

Close not thy hand upon the innocent joy
That trusts itself within thy reach. It may
Or may not linger. Thou canst but destroy
The wingèd wanderer. Let it go or stay.
Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
Think! Midas starved by turning all to gold. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

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

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Our first assigment was at a place the old maps called Telezon. A rare town not planted on a lake, it was surrounded by golden grassy plains crossed by a winding, twisting river in the centre of the largest land-mass.
The grass had recently set seed in plumes of purple and white which scattered like dandelions puffs whenever the wind took a punch. And all of it was completely seething with small birds and massive dragonflies, as we discovered when we set down for the first time and ten million grass-gold birds took off in a storm of wings to give a Midas touch to the sky. ~ Andrea K. Host

Rich as Midas, they said, powerful as a Caesar, and ruthless as the devil. So he didn't have a pretty face for the ladies to coo over, but a man such as Dorian Blackwell drew feminine notice wherever he prowled. Fear and fascination proved to be powerful tools of seduction, and women reacted one way or the other toward the dark giant. ~ Kerrigan Byrne

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.

It does not have walls splattered with gold leaf like King Midas has had a nosebleed. ~ Jay Rayner

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

The male has a
negative Midas Touch -- everything he touches turns to shit. ~ Valerie Solanas

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

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