Gold Quotes

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

Don't bail; the best pieces of gold are at the bottom of the barrel of crap.

The first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused; or, if received, are pocketed, not read.

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind.

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.

And who shall say--whatever disenchantment follows--that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

Anyone who thinks that the last 80 years, ever since FDR took us off gold, have been a doomed venture, that strikes me as kind of cranky.

The superiority of the gold standard consists in the fact that the value of gold develops independent of political actions.

Some people spend so much time hunting treasure that they fail to see it all around them. It's like sifting through gold to find the silt.

Nothing of great value in this life comes easily. The things of highest value sometimes come hard. The gold that has the greatest value lies deepest in the earth, as do the diamonds.

Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

All I know is gold and platinum, and I want to be platinum.

The early morning has gold in its mouth.

I love seeing people's reactions to gifts that I've created from my line, such as my gold horn ring, bottle openers, my 'Fallen' leather jacket and my Slither black and white sweater.

It took Dan Jansen, the speed skater, four Olympics to win a medal-a gold one at that!-but he never gave up. I won't, either.

I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies-- You are my deepening skies; Give me your stars to hold

O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.

I like playing for the purple and gold. This is where I want to finish up.

To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world.

Borrowers will default. Markets will collapse. Gold (the ultimate form of safe money) will skyrocket.

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

It is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.

You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.

It's not what the price of gold is that matters, but rather how much stuff it will buy.

Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.

Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.

A good name is better than bags of gold.

All is not gold that glisters.

Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

Night's darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

Gold hath no lustre of its own. It shines by temperate use alone.

A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.

All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.

A million butterflies rose up from South America, All together, and flew in a gold storm toward Spain.

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.

Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

A good disposition I far prefer to gold; for gold is the gift of fortune; goodness of disposition is the gift of nature. I prefer much rather to be called good than fortunate.