| 49 Gold Quotes
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“More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.”
Napoleon Hill Quotes |
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“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy Quotes |
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“Nothing Gold Can Stay”
Robert Frost Quotes |
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“One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.”
Claude M. Bristol Quotes |
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“If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.”
Greek proverb Quotes |
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“Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.”
Turkish Proverb Quotes |
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“Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...”
Bob Marley Quotes |
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“Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time”
English Proverb Quotes |
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“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 Quotes Source: at the Democratic Convention
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“A thirst for gold,
The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm
The meanest hearts.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: The Vision of Judgment (st. 43)
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“Every honest miller has a golden thumb.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales, old saying
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“For gold in phisik is a cordial;
Therefore he lovede gold in special.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 443)
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“And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes Source: The Canterbury Tales (prologue, l. 563)
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“Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
Gold does civil wars create.”
Abraham Cowley Quotes Source: Anacreontics--Gold (l. 17)
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“What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?”
Thomas Gray Quotes Source: On the Death of a Favorite Cat
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“That is gold which is worth gold.”
George Herbert Quotes Source: Jacula Prudentum
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“Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold!”
Thomas Hood Quotes Source: Miss Kilmansegg--Her Moral
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“Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls to break.
[Lat., Aurum per medios ire satellites
Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius
Ictu fulmineo.]”
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) Quotes Source: Ode XVI (bk. III, l. 12), (Francis' translation)
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“The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest;
The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless!
The last corruption of degenerate man.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Irene (act I, sc. 1)
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“Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air,
For that without it were else a miserable affair.
[Fr., L'or donne aux plus laids certain charme pour plaire,
Et que sans lui le reste est une triste affaire.]”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere Quotes Source: Sganarelle (I)
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“Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore.”
Thomas Moore Quotes Source: Irish Melodies--Rich and Rare were the Gems She Wore
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“Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of
gold; by gold love is procured.
[Lat., Aurea nunc vere sunt saecula; plurimus auto
Venit honos; auro concilatur amor.]”
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Quotes Source: Ars Amatoria (bk. II, 277)
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“Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece.”
Plutarch Quotes Source: Life of Paulus Aemilius, quoted as a common saying, referring to Philip II of Macedon
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“What nature wants, commodious gold bestows;
'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.”
Alexander Pope Quotes Source: Moral Essay (ep. III, l. 21)
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