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

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

Mark Twain

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

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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

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

Ovid

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

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