Gold Quotes

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. (Democritus)
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. View quote
Sophocles
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. View quote
Euripides
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold... View quote
Bob Marley
I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven. View quote
Harriet Tubman
Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. View quote
Jonathan Swift
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is. View quote
Thomas More
Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold. View quote
Ludwig van Beethoven
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. View quote
J. R. R. Tolkien
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to findnothing. View quote
Aesop
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. (Alfred Marshall)
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. View quote
Alan Greenspan
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch. View quote
Woody Allen
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. View quote
Napoleon Hill
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver. View quote
Karl Marx
Gold is good in its place; but living, brave, and patriotic men are better than gold. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds. View quote
René Daumal
The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor. View quote
Basil of Caesarea
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold! View quote
Aristophanes
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. (Horace)
Men hang out their signs indicative of their respective trades shoemakers hang out a gigantic shoe jewelers, a monster watch and the dentist hangs out a gold tooth but up in the mountains of New Hampshire, God Almighty has hung out a sign to show. View quote
Daniel Webster
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Trusty, dusky, vivid, true, With eyes of gold and bramble-dew, Steel-true and blade-straight, The great artificer made my mate. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
To a shower of gold most things are penetrable. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
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