Gold Quotes

A thirst for gold, The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm The meanest hearts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold.

The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

Don't miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for that pot of gold.

Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.

Stories are like fairy gold, the more you give away, the more you have.

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.

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
Abraham Cowley







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