Gold Quotes
Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.
Lee Loevinger
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung
Zen Saying
Man being reasonable must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, gold - in these are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation
Lord Byron
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
The universal medicine for the Soul is the Supreme Reason and Absolute Justice; for the mind, mathematical and practical Truth; for the body, the Quintessence, a combination of light and gold.
Albert Pike
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
Aristophanes
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
As it would be great folly to shoe horses, as Nero did, with gold, so it is to spend time in trifles.
John Mason
A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
Bible
Loose words are picked up like gold coin.
Russian Proverb
Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it.
Samuel Butler
That is gold which is worth gold.
George Herbert
Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold.
Aristotle
Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D.H. Lawrence
