Gold Quotes - page 2

So dear a life your arms enfold, Whose crying is a cry for gold. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise. View quote
Gwendolyn Brooks
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time. View quote
Cormac McCarthy
I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... rules. View quote
Mr. T
Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne. Men from England bought and sold me, paid my price in paltry gold but, though theirs they have enroll'd me, minds are never to be sold. View quote
William Cowper
You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel. View quote
Steven Pressfield
I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now. View quote
Benny Hinn
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John's Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold And there Jerusalem's pillars stood. View quote
William Blake
Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold. (William Wordsworth)
I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at. View quote
Jesse Owens
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All that glitters is not gold. View quote
William Shakespeare
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths. View quote
Elizabeth I of England
Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. View quote
Mark Twain
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 himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
'T is an old tale and often told But did my fate and wish agree, Ne'er had been read, in story old, Of maiden true betray'd for gold, That loved, or was avenged, like me. (Walter Scott)
Gold is cold, diamonds are dead, a limousine is a car, don't pretend, feel what's real... View quote
Charlize Theron
In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. View quote
John Maynard Keynes
You never win the silver. You only lose the gold. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do. View quote
Paul
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