Gold Quotes - page 2

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. (William Cowper)

You have never tasted freedom friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

Steven Pressfield

I don't need gold in heaven, I gotta have it now.

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.

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.

William Blake

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Democritus

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

Aristophanes

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.

Condoleezza Rice

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

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. (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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

Horace

All that glitters is not gold.

William Shakespeare

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Elizabeth I of England

If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief.

Sophocles

Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

Rabindranath Tagore

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

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.

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... (Charlize Theron)

In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic.

John Maynard Keynes

You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.

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.

Paul

As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.

W. Averell Harriman

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