Gold Quotes
2205 Gold quotes by 1417 unique authors
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Even the worst that happens to you can be converted into GOLD if you are clever enough.
— Curtis Jackson
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A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.
— Publilius Syrus
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When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotant.
— Publilius Syrus
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What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.
— Philibert Joseph Roux
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A basic ingredient in the manufacture of perfume, the attar-a heavy, pale-yellow oil stored in small metal drums-had been put up as collateral by Bulgaria,…
— S. J. Perelman
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
— Andre Gide
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If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.
— Saadi
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In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.
— Henry Van Dyke
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The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes,…
— Albert Camus
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Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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No man loveth his fetters, be they made of gold.
— John Heywood
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I've always been fascinated by the Gold Coast. The homes themselves are spectacular, unlike anything you'll see other than in Newport, Bar Harbor or Palm…
— Nelson DeMille
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The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.
— Sylvia Plath
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We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant…
— Raymond Chandler
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The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.
— Rumi
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Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.
— Francis Quarles
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I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold
— Isaac Watts
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Life can be difficult for kids born with a gold spoon in their mouth, because they never really get to find out if they're able…
— Lee Iacocca
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This grossly advertised wonder [Venice], this gold idol with clay feet, this trompe-l'oeil, this painted deception, this cliche-what intelligent iconoclast could fail to experience a…
— Mary McCarthy
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Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven,…
— Florence King
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You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of…
— Michael Lee-Chin
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If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to…
— Matthew Modine
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I want to win a gold medal in London.
— Kerri Walsh
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