Gold Quotes

When people are collecting gold they aren't doing business. ... Gold is constipation: even bankruptcy is more fluid. Gold isn't wealth: positions in markets are wealth.

Don't turn around. Don't look back. Keep moving forward. Keep pushing. The pot of gold is at the end of the rainbow, not the beginning.

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

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.

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.

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.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.

The favorite to win the Olympic gold medal in archery is a legally blind athlete from South Korea, mainly because everyone else is too scared to compete next to him.

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

The real alchemy is transforming the base self into gold or into spiritual awareness. That's really what new alchemy's all about.

The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

Curling is not a sport. I called my grandmother and told her she could win a gold medal because they have dusting in the Olympics now.

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

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.

Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it.

With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either.

Love is priceless. And all I really want is a good night kiss. So if tears were diamonds, more valuable gold, then a fortune in the corners of my eyes I would hold.

It is not easy to distinguish between true and false affection, unless there occur one of those crises in which, as gold is tried by fire, so a faithful friendship may be tested by danger.

We have gold because we cannot trust governments

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

No night so wild but brings the constant sun With love and power untold; No time so dark but through its woof there run Some blessed threads of gold.

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

When we are victorious on a world scale I think we shall use gold for the purpose of building public lavatories in the streets of some of the largest cities of the world.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!

It's nice to have a medal, but we were hoping for a gold.

In the long run, the gold price has to go up in relation to paper money. There is no other way. To what price, that depends on the scale of the inflation - and we know that inflation will continue.

I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.

You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards

Of all the contrivances for cheating the laboring classes of mankind, none has been more effective than that which deludes them with paper money.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

I don't get back as much as I'd like to, so I don't have a lot of close ties [Pittsburgh], but I'll bleed black and gold until I die.