Gold Quotes - page 4

Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city. (William Carlos Williams)
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful. View quote
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up. View quote
Noel Gallagher
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise. View quote
Alan Greenspan
That for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice- almighty gold. View quote
Ben Jonson
I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card. View quote
Victoria Beckham
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. View quote
William Jennings Bryan
Fire tries gold, misfortune tries brave men. View quote
Seneca
Swift blazing flag of the regiment, Eagle with crest of red and gold, These men were born to drill and die. Point for them the virtue of slaughter, Make plain to them the excellence of killing And a field where a thousand corpses lie. (Stephen Crane)
Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood. View quote
Robert E. Howard
May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and gives but bad receipts for payment in the lower world. Ah, passers-by that stroll, travelers that come and go, all that I had, I placed on virtue, and lost the game! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
That is the truth. Not the hammer and sickle. Not the stars and stripes. Not the cross. Not the sun. Not gold. Not yin and yang. View quote
John Fowles
"... But men don't come in just two groups, one of gold and the other of lead. They are a mix of both." "And what about women?" "Pure gold, my girl," Rayvan answered with a chuckle. View quote
David Gemmell
Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws. View quote
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars? View quote
P. L. Travers
Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised) Linking our England to his Italy. View quote
Robert Browning
The orthodox doctrines of economics which were dominant in the last quarter of the nineteenth century had a clear message. They supported laisser faire, free trade, the gold standard, and the universally advantageous effects of the pursuit of profit by competitive private enterprise. View quote
Joan Robinson
It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. View quote
Richard Bach
And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. [...] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive "cry”). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals-my old and valued friends-Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten. (Oliver Sacks)
This Mayagüez gold, my third consecutive with the national team, has a strawberry flavor. View quote
Milagros Cabral
Let go into the mystery Let yourself go You've got to open up your heart That's all I know Trust what I say and do what you're told Baby, and all your dirt will turn Into gold. View quote
Van Morrison
I try to catch at many a tune Like petals of light fallen from the moon, Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can hold Youth, or perfume or the moon's gold? View quote
Sara Teasdale
I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies,- You are my deepening skies, Give me your stars to hold. View quote
Sara Teasdale
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