Gold Quotes - page 4

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity. (Samuel Johnson)

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up.

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.

Alan Greenspan

That for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice- almighty gold.

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.

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.

William Jennings Bryan

Fire tries gold, misfortune tries brave men.

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.

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! (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.

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.

David Gemmell

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?

P. L. Travers

Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised) Linking our England to his Italy.

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.

Joan Robinson

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.

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.

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. (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?

Sara Teasdale

I am the pool of gold When sunset burns and dies,- You are my deepening skies, Give me your stars to hold.

Sara Teasdale

But you I never understood, Your spirit's secret hides like gold Sunk in a Spanish galleon Ages ago in waters cold.

Sara Teasdale

The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.

Edith Wharton

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