GOLD QUOTES

quotations about gold

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.

E. A. BUCCHIANERI

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly


Vanity is only to be satisfied by gold in floods.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Gobseck

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A mask of gold hides all deformities.

THOMAS DEKKER

Old Fortunatus

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Bright El Dorado, land of gold,
We have so sought for thee,
There's not a spot in all the globe
Where such a land can be.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Poems from Annuals


O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,
Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

LORD BYRON

Don Juan

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All that glitters is not gold.

ENGLISH PROVERB

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Well, gold contains all things in embryo; gold realizes all things for us.

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Gobseck

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Gold is a living god and rules in scorn,
All earthly things but virtue.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

Queen Mab

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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we've forgotten there’s any other way.

F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

This Side of Paradise

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There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

ARISTOPHANES

Plutus

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Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.

AURELIUS CLEMENS PRUDENTIUS

Hamartigenia

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A prize fighter in a corner is told
Hit where it hurts - For Silver and Gold
You can stop the world from turning around
You just gotta pay a penny in the pound.

U2

"Silver & Gold"

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True gold fears no fire.

CHINESE PROVERB

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Nature hath hid gold beneath the earth, as unworthy to be seen; silver hath she placed where thou tramplest it under thy feet; meaneth she not by this to inform thee that gold is not worthy of thy regard--that silver is beneath thy notice? Hath not gold destroyed the virtue of millions? Did it ever add to the goodness of any?

ROBERT DODSLEY

The Economy of Human Life


Those who worship Gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in, have at least one thing to plead in defence of their idolatry--the power of their Idol. It is true, that like other Idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, or understand; but, unlike other Idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This Idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!

ARIANA FRANKLIN

Mistress of the Art of Death

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Gold and iron are good
To buy iron and gold.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Politics

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Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn't produce anything.

WARREN BUFFETT

attributed, Banking on Confidence: A Guidebook to Financial Literacy

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Gold gathers more than a shovel.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

Life Without Purpose

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