Best 1297 quotes in «gold quotes» category

For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling, the possessing, the having, all of that color, all in a blindness of that color." - Ernest Hemingway.

For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

For Pastrasche was their alpha and omega; their treasury and granary; their store of gold and wand of wealth; their bread-winner and minister; their only friend and comforter. ... Pastrasche was their dog.

For the criminal who is weak and poor the narrow cell of death awaits; but honor and glory await the rich who conceal their crimes behind their gold and silver and inherited glory.

For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.

Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.

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.

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

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.

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.

Glorious are the woods in their latest gold and crimson.

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.

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.

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] 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.

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 and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

Gold and Silver have always had value, never gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?

Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

Gold has an almost atavistic lure. People feel it has a panacea effect.

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's.

Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise.

Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

Gold will be slave or master.

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.