Gold Quotes · Page 37

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

— Mark Twain

Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

— Alexander Pope

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

— John Updike

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

— Regina Brett

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

— Owen Feltham

I'm definitely not getting in Ubers and going, 'Wanna see my gold medal?'

— Nelly Korda

The 49ers are based on the California Gold Rush, which was an incredibly brutal time for California Indians.

— Lily Gladstone

People say I should be running for a gold medal for the old red, white and blue and all that bull, but…

— Steve Prefontaine

Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out…

— Lee Iacocca

Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the…

— Nelson Mandela

Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of…

— Lydia Millet

From a strictly economic point of view, buying gold in a major inflation and holding it probably presents the least risk of…

— Henry Hazlitt

I read the 'Kapoor & Sons' script in a half hour, forty five minutes. Not because I skimming through it... I read…

— Fawad Khan

The regressive Left ranks minority groups in a pecking order to compete in a kind of 'Oppression Olympics.' Gold medal goes to…

— Dave Rubin

Gold has no increasing value. And if you're really worried about, say, inflation rising, I would buy Spam. You know, you can…

— Nouriel Roubini

Time is not money or gold; it is life itself and is limited. You must begin to appreciate every moment of your…

— Khurram Murad

As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my…

— Anonymous

In that intensely busy time of children and work, soup became my stalwart friend and I learned its true value. Anyone who's…

— Anna Thomas

The root of honesty is an honest intention, the distinct and deliberate purpose to be true, to handle facts as they are,…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

I can't remember the exact quote but when I used to trade and Mr. Volcker was Fed chairman, he said something like…

— Rick Santelli

I'm here to tell you, though, ladies that the term "gold digger" is one of the traps we men set to keep…

— Steve Harvey

Just as gold tarnished in depth (cf. Jms. 5:3) cannot be properly purified and restored to its proper brightness unless it is…

— Symeon the New Theologian

The U. S. is headed toward a period of business depression... beginning within the next two years, which may exceed that which…

— Irving Fisher

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when…

— Edith Wharton

Measuring national prestige by gold medals is like using Viagra to judge the potency of a man.

— Ai Weiwei

Far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple, gleam Like islands on a dark blue sea.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least…

— John Tillotson

I am fundraising gold. Democrat donors hate me so much, they hear my name and they run to their checkbooks.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Anna Benson

I'm a huge fan of sing-songy lyrics and loud guitars. Whatever punk band does that gets a gold star!

— Kim Shattuck

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

— Oswald Chambers

Columbus went around the world in 1492. That isn't a lot of strokes when you consider the course.

— Lee Trevino

Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.

— John Maynard Keynes

The world is glittering with gold, and yellow streamers of sunlight wind through the tree boughs like God was throwing a party!

— Christine Anderson

I own oil, I own gold, I own things like that if there is going to be a war ¦ theyre [going…

— Jim Rogers

If I was a gold-digger, I would have a lot of money in my bank account. I'd be worth millions and millions.

— Heather Mills

This Mayagüez gold, my third consecutive with the national team, has a strawberry flavor.

— Milagros Cabral

If my mum or my wife says that something isn't funny, I know I've struck gold.

— Peter Kay

When men change swords for ledgers, and desert The student's bower for gold, some fears unnamed I had, my Country--am I to…

— William Wordsworth

I assumed that some of the gold bars I received were melted gold teeth.

— Oswald Pohl