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There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.

There is a way to play this game physically, but it's the mental part that's going to separate gold from silver and silver from bronze.

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

There is no question that the language of "felt thought" must be quarried from our personal depths. Like the best gold, it does not lie on the surface.

There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought nor traded for gold.

There is no wall that is high enough to stop a horse with a cart filled with gold.

There is, of course, a gold mine or a buried treasure on every mortgaged homestead. Whether the farmer ever digs for it or not, it is there, haunting his daydreams when the burden of debt is most unbearable.

There is one element that is worth its weight in gold and that is LOYALTY. It will cover a multitude of weaknesses.

There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.

There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.

There is unpanned gold in every soul you run into, no matter what walk of life they are from.

The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency.

There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow more precious than a pot of gold.

The royal kingcup bold Dares not don his coat of gold.

...there seems to be a correlation between the intensity of the official attacks on gold and the severity of monetary crises.

There's no question that frankly Hillary Clinton took positions that she never had before because of this political movement. If you look at her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which she had previously repeatedly called the gold standard, she now says she's against it.

There's only one thing that all of the central banks control and that is the base, their own liability, and they can control that in various ways. They can control it directly by open market operations, buying and selling government securities or other assets, for example, buying and selling gold, or they can control it indirectly by altering the rate at which banks lend to one another.

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

These are Gerald Celente's three Gs: gold, guns and a getaway plan.

The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.

The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.

These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers.

The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.

The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.

The soul will never become pious and purified except through undergoing afflictions. It is the same as gold that can never be pure except after removing all the base metals in it.

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

The streets weren't paved with gold and Rose petals [when I was young]. "Do I have a horn to sell this month to pay my rent, or what am I going to do?" It was what it was.

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 strength in gold is revealing the general weakness in the dollar.

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

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

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

The ultimate asset bubble is gold.

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 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 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.

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?

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