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All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.

William Shakespeare

No gold-digging for me... I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

Mae West

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

Seneca

Pure gold does not fear furnace.

Chinese Proverbs

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!

William Jennings Bryan

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

Lord Byron

The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man.

Samuel Johnson

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

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

Ovid

Gold is a vain and foolish fancy.

Augustus Eugene Scribe and Germain Delavigne

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

Thomas Dekker

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Thomas Fuller

Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.

Carter G. Woodson

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

Marjorie Holmes

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Antoine Rivarol

The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.

Joseph French Johnson

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

Proverb

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

Abraham Lincoln

Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

Rabindranath Tagore

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Euripides

Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

MoliFre

Agriculture is the noblest of all alchemy; for it turns earth, and even manure, into gold, conferring upon its cultivator the additional reward of health.

Paul Chatfield

Artthe meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind the sackcloth of reality, forced out by the pain of human memory.

Lawrence Durrell

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

John Burroughs

News that the German government has deserted plans to invest proceeds from gold sales into a special fund assigned for research and education has given a boost to a weak gold market.

Peter Spina

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