Gold Quote by Sophocles

If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing…

— Sophocles

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.

— Samuel Johnson

There was still gold and silver in the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow

— W. H. Auden

Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or…

— Ferenc Molnar

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

— Oswald Chambers

Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as…

— Christopher Columbus

Gold is the corpse of value...

— Neal Stephenson

There is a certain pleasure in weeping; grief finds in tears both a satisfaction and a cure.

— Ovid

There was still gold and silverin the mountains, And hunger was a more immediate sorrow;

— Anonymous

I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.

— Henry David Thoreau

Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase

— Charles Dickens