Certain Quote by Joseph Heller

Gold was not sure of many things, but he was definite about one: for every successful person he knew, he could name at least…

— Joseph Heller

The humblest observer who goes to the mines sees and says that gold-digging is of the character of a lottery; the gold thus obtained…

— Henry David Thoreau

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

— Christopher Columbus

And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water…

— Plutarch

In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not,…

— John Sutter

Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“We should have springs and rivers, not mines and treasure tunnels. Gold is an unwelcome visitor. It works against the acclimation of people to…

— Tim Westover

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

— Owen Feltham

“A man acquainted with God has more power than any earthly potentate. Gold can’t do everything.”

— D.L. Moody

From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we…

— Jonathan Edwards

This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea…

— Umberto Eco