Gold Quotes
Gold for friends, Lead for foes.Anastasio Somoza Garc? a, Dictator of Nicaragua 1936 - 1956
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean
It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
Where as gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, it comes an evil guest unto those that receive it in their hand.Simondes of Ceos
They deem me mad for I will not sell my days for gold; I deem them mad for they think my days have a price.Kahlil Gibran
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.Seneca
Spare minutes are the Gold - Dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter.Author Unknown
Beauty holds more worth than gold.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
Silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world.Euripides
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.Alain de Lille
Have regard for your name, since it will remain for you longer than a great store of gold.Ecclesiasticus, Aprocrypha (Ec. 41: 12)
Think, In mounting higher, The angels would press on us, and aspire To drop some golden orb of perfect song Into our deep, dear silence.Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.Claiborne Pell
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family!Joachim Du Bellay, Sonnet de Regrets
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - Great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.D. March
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.Sir Thomas More, Utopia
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.James Barrie
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.Anon.
RICHER THAN GOLDYou may have tangible wealth untoldCaskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be - - I had a mother who read to me.Strickland Gillilan
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.Euripides
Dig where the gold is? Unless you just need some exercise.John M. Capozzi, Why Climb the Corporate Ladder When You Can Take the Elevator?
Dig where the gold is unless you just need some exercise.John M. Capozzi
Recommend to your children virtue that alone can make them happy, not gold.Ludwig van Beethoven
Those who steal from private individuals spend their lives in stocks and chains those who steal from the public treasure go dressed in gold and purple.Marcius Porcius Cato
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.Joachim du Bellay
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
Kindness is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others.Henry Drummond
The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - Nothing.Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Many a crown of wisdom is but the golden chamberpot of success, worn with pompous dignity.Joey Adams
I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.Albert Einstein
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.Latin Prove
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it. Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow. Retire when the work is done. This is the way of heaven.Tao Te Ching
Marriage is the golden ring in a chain, whose beginning is a glance and whose ending is eternity.Kahlil Gibran
