Gold Quotes
I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.
There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.
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.
It's not what the price of gold is that matters, but rather how much stuff it will buy.
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 is not he who forms idols in gold or marble that makes them gods, but he who kneels before them.
Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.
Gold is where you find it, according to an old adage, but judging from the record of our experience, oil must be sought first of all in our minds.
It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.
An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold at the Olympics.
You are recognized by your bat. If you are the best hitting shortstop out there, that's how you win a Gold Glove. That's the way it is. It shouldn't be-it's a defensive award.
We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.
The missing aren't missing, they're only departed, All minds keep all thoughts - so like gold - closely guarded.
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.
Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.
Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.
Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.
If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!
Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucydides with a brazen stylus.
It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.
...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.
The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold
When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.
Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.
Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.
Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.
There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.
Although it was a great accomplishment to win a gold medal, as soon as they put it on you, that's it; your career is over.
