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Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

Alan Greenspan

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

Charles Dickens 1812

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

Charles Caleb Colton

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

Ovid

A gold watch is the most appropriate gift for retirement, as its recipients have given up so many of their golden hours in a lifetime of service.

Harry Mahtar

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

Aristotle

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

Robert Graves

Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

Seneca

Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

D.H. Lawrence

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold.

Aristotle

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.

Unknown

That is gold which is worth gold.

George Herbert

Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.

Samuel Butler

Loose words are picked up like gold coin.

Russian Proverb

And all is not golden that glitters, And not all that glitters is gold.

Aloysius Charles Swinburne

As it would be great folly to shoe horses, as Nero did, with gold, so it is to spend time in trifles.

John Mason

PALM, n. A species of tree having several varieties, of which the familiar "itching palm" (_Palma hominis_) is most widely distributed and sedulously cultivated. This noble vegetable exudes a kind of invisible gum, which may be detected by applying to the bark a piece of gold or silver. The metal will adhere with remarkable tenacity. The fruit of the itching palm is so bitter and unsatisfying that a considerable percentage of it is sometimes given away in what are known as "benefactions.

Ambrose Bierce

All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green

Ray Douglas Bradbury

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost

You are debauched and shameless. You have spoken roses of me. And a dirty lickspittle. You crown me with lilies. And a parricide. You don't know that you are sprinkling me with gold. Certainly not so formerly, but with lead. But now this is an ornament to me.

Aristophanes

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

Aristophanes

The affairs of gold-laden Gyges do not interest me zealousy of the gods has never seized me nor anger at their deeds. But I have no love for great tyranny for its deeds are very far from my eyes.

Archilochus

Three hundred men hastened forth, wearing gold torques, defending the land and there was slaughter. Though they were slain they slew, and they shall be honoured to the end of the world; and of all us kinsmen who went, alas, but for one man none escaped.

Aneirin

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