Gold Quotes

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!

I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Double gold means I'm king of the sprints. It shows I'm the best sprinter around.

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.

I see a great future for gold and silver coins as the currency people may increasingly turn to when paper currencies begin to disintegrate.

As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.

Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple.

As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal. I think, male or female, that was a record number.

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

People say I'm a gold digger, but do you see me wearing gold? No. I'm wearing diamonds.

The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.

They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

DNA was my only gold rush. I regarded DNA as worth a gold rush.

People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.

In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.

It was Saturday night and I was feelin kinda funny, Gold around my neck, pockets full of money.

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.

There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought nor traded for gold.

O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.

The musical stuff I'd go up for was always funny, sexy, tough-as-nails, heart-of-gold characters.

In dreams, through longings, we can see— All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be— But that will never, ever, grow.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.

If you view life as a gold rush, you're going to end up worshiping a golden calf.

It is a vast wilderness of rocks in a sea of light, colored and glowing like oak and maple in autumn, when the sun gold is richest

We must pursue the removal of church property by any means necessary in order to secure for ourselves a fund of several hundred million gold rubles.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.