Gold Quotes

Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.

See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.

Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ.

The law itself follows gold.

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole.

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?

Nothing gold can stay.

But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.

The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

Thank you, but diamonds break easier than gold and people shine more through brokenness.

When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.

I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?

She was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.

When you're expected to win and you have the press saying that you are going to win the Olympic gold medal, and you're the only sure thing in the Olympics, it can undermine your confidence.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.

You have an advantage if you win. I always think it's best to be remembered as a winner rather than as the runner-up. It's definitely more fun getting the gold than it is the silver.

It is better to pay tribute of gold to the enemy than tribute of blood in war.

Gold once out of the earth is no more due unto it; what was unreasonably committed to the ground, is reasonably resumed from it; let monuments and rich fabricks, not riches, adorn men's ashes.

Our new watches are made entirely of double super gold. They are just a piece of gold that you can wear to the left, right, or directly on top of the other gold you own.

He who has the gold makes the rules.

I had always wanted to go to the Navy. As a young kid, I was intrigued by a Naval Officer with the beautiful brown shoes and sharp gold wings.

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold.

Turning, for them who pass, the common dust Of servile opportunity to gold.

Malaysia didn't end up winning any gold medals at the Rio Olympics, but had set new records and brought the nation closer, so keep going.

Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.

I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors.

Gold is not overvalued at $500, and gold will not be overvalued at $1,500 or $2,000. The real money is buying gold and putting it away.

Counterfeiters exist because there is such a thing as real gold.

All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.