Best 1297 quotes in «gold quotes» category

The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold

The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold.

The threat of a neglected cold is for doctors what the threat of purgatory is for priests-a gold mine.

The time will come that gold will hold no comparison in value to a bushel of wheat.

The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.

The United States deserves nothing but love and adoration and gold medals left and right and peace prizes left and right, things we never get.

The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.

The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it's the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of.

The way to transmute your iron duty into gold in everyone's eyes is this: always deliver more than you promise.

Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie.

They dont understand what real treasure is. They see it in gold and copper, and tin. They see in herds of horses or cattle. They gather treasures to themselves, building great storehouses, which they guard ferociously. Then they die. What good is it then?

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

They came from all over the world to work out at Gold's Gym.

they say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their gaze is a rope of gold binding each other. even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. they can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

This, my first [bicycle] had an intrinsic beauty. And it opened for me an era of all but flying, which roads emptily crossing theairy, gold-gorsy Common enhanced. Nothing since has equalled that birdlike freedom.

This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels

This is the first medal I've ever won in an international meet. For it to be gold is incredible. It feels great. I can't explain it.

This Mayagüez gold, my third consecutive with the national team, has a strawberry flavor.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

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

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe.

Time is not money or gold; it is life itself and is limited. You must begin to appreciate every moment of your life and always strive to make the best use of it.

time never stops, but does it end? and how many livesbefore take-off, before we find ourselves beyond ourselves, all glam-glow, all twinkle and gold?

Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

Tis an old saying, the Devil lurks behind the cross. All is not gold that glitters. From the tail of the plough, Bamba was made King of Spain; and from his silks and riches was Rodrigo cast to be devoured by the snakes.

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

TMM is among the best of low-cost gold producers with strong longevity.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.

Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.

Time is the most valuable commodity we have, worth more than gold, yet wasted more than all else. Efficient use of time begins with prayer.

Tiny gold sparks flared in his irises. "You're in my rooms in my bathtub naked and you're still mouthing off." Did he expect anything different? "Hey, I didn't kick or punch you in the throat. I consider this progress. And you haven't choked me again, which is some sort of record for you.

Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man.

To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.

Today be thankful and think how rich you are. Your family is priceless, your time is gold and your health is wealth.