Gold Quotes
Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.
Seneca
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused
Virgil
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current
Laurence Sterne
When faced with a mountain, I will not quit! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath - or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with God's help!
Friedrich von Schiller
Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
Marguerite Blessington
The True happiness that Man has searched for since the dawn of humanity, that is the inner gold that awaits any person who holds compassionately the key of anonymous generosity. Do something for your fellow man, not for the gold, but for the love of Man, and you shall truly have the gold
Unknown
Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
Adam Smith
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Tolstoy
I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.
Graham Greene
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
Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold.
William Osler
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
Confucius
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Martha Graham
