Gold Quotes

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

J.R.R. Tolkien

If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.

Greek proverb

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Napoleon Hill

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

Mark Twain

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don't get soaked in the rain.

Turkish Proverb

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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

Speech is silver; silence is golden.

Swiss Proverb

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

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