Gold Quotes

2205 Gold quotes by 1417 unique authors

Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’ Winning them to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Earth gets its price for what Earth gives us; The beggar is taxed for a corner to die in, The priest hath his fee who… — James Russell Lowell
How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains… — William Shakespeare
Catch a vista of maples in that long light and you see Autumn glowing through the leaves.... The promise of gold and crimson is there… — Hal Borland
With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I always feel at home where the sugar maple grows.... glorious in autumn, a fountain of coolness in summer, sugar in its veins, gold in… — John Burroughs
We often praise the evening clouds, And tints so gay and bold, But seldom think upon our God, Who tinged these clouds with gold. — Walter Scott
Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you… — Pindar
That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt Lake City, and… — Hayley Wickenheiser
Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold. — William Shakespeare
Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have. — Phyllis Diller
Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself,… — Woody Allen
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be… — Oscar Wilde
I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners… — John Updike
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick. — Louis Kronenberger
Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love. — Ovid
I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues. — Ovid
Speech is silver, silence is golden. — Thomas Carlyle
The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but… — Thomas Carlyle
It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience… — Robert Green Ingersoll
[V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But tell me: how did gold get to be the highest value? Because it is uncommon and useless and gleaming and gentle in its brilliance;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay. — Kami Garcia
Avarice is fear sheathed in gold. — Paul Eldridge
We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are… — Wangari Maathai

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