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From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically, under a monetary system in which people used gold and silver coins rather than paper money as the media of exchange.

From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written.

Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal.

Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

Given all the money printing that is going on globally - and not just in the US - and given that the total credit as a percent of the advanced economies is now 30% higher than in 2007 before the crisis hit, I think that gold is a good insurance.

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson, Yet our full-leaved willows are in the freshest green. Such a kindly autumn, so mercifully dealing With the growths of summer, I never yet have seen.

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

God's livery is a very plain one; but its wearers have good reason to be content. If it have not so much gold-lace about it as Satan's, it keeps out foul weather better, and is besides a great deal cheaper.

God wrote His loveliest poem on the day He made the first silver poplar tree, And set it high upon a pale-gold hill For all the new enchanted earth to see.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.

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

Gold has intrinsic value. The problem with the dollar is it has no intrinsic value. And if the Federal Reserve is going to spend trillions of them to buy up all these bad mortgages and all other kinds of bad debt, the dollar is going to lose all of its value. Gold will store its value, and you'll always be able to buy more food with your gold.

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

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing

Gold diggers are the wife beaters of men!

Gold has no increasing value. And if you're really worried about, say, inflation rising, I would buy Spam. You know, you can eat Spam. You cannot eat gold.

Gold is no longer an investment. Gold is no longer a portfolio item. Gold is certainly not a trading vehicle. Gold is your lifeline and I mean that literally.

Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

Going to the Olympics as a Maasai I want to make them proud because, after the warm welcome they gave me when I went back and being their leader, I want to also be the warrior in the Olympics. That will be something good because that will be the first Olympic gold medal for the Maasai.

Gold has two significant shortcomings, being neither of much use nor procreative.

Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When they were minted into coins of equal weight in order to make trade easier and smoother. But it was when coinage first made its appearance in Athens that it truly flourished.

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

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.

Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

Gold were as good as twenty orators.

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.

Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.

Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it.

Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

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.

Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.

Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.