Gold Quotes

2205 Gold quotes by 1417 unique authors

In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of… — Simone Weil
To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow. — Samuel Johnson
Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully… — William C. Bryant
One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium. — Edward Abbey
Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can… — Thomas Jefferson
It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I… — Thomas Jefferson
Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems… — Wayne Gretzky
Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle… — Samuel Gompers
The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long… — Eugene V. Debs
Betting against gold is the same as betting on governments. He who bets on governments and government money bets against 6,000 years of recorded human… — Charles de Gaulle
There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which… — Charles de Gaulle
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only… — Carl Jung
In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on… — Karl Marx
The Olympics is not for tennis and tennis does not need the Olympics. It is not my goal in life to win a gold medal. — Marat Safin
Moreover, they [the Central Asian Republics] are of importance from the standpoint of security and historical ambitions to at least three of their most immediate… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
It is often to be observed, that as in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthly rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled… — Herman Melville
Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli. — George R. R. Martin
Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and… — Petrarch
An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be. — Edward Bellamy
I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever. — George Soros
I admire Russia for wiping out an economic system which permitted a handful of rich to exploit and beat gold from the millions of plain… — Frank Marshall Davis
For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back… — Mahatma Gandhi
Who are you, reader, reading my poems an hundred years hence? I cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring, one… — Rabindranath Tagore
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe. — A B Yehoshua

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