Gold Quotes

Take this drink as a token ofmy disrepute and spin that hay tonight and tomorrow it will be shining golden bright in whatever heavy delirious weave you wish to make.

~ Initially No

If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they’ll land.

~ Robert Jordan

Never trust money more than gold.

~ Toba Beta

Pure gold does not rust. Only gold alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the company of toxic people, your become a gold alloy and what that means is that you can rust at any time!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

it seems that man has learnednot to seenot to knowfor he's found the potof goldbut lost the rainbow...

~ Barry Decarli

I used to be a poet.My words were traded in marketplaces like pieces of gold.Merchants bought my verses for as much as they paid for saffron and Indian jade.Now I am old...drunk on wine and candle fumes.Alone in this barren room, I speak my psalms to the night air so as to entertain moths before they go off to die.I used to be a poet and my words were gold.

~ Roman Payne

It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

~ Euripides

We are weary of being without gold in the midst of plenty. We wish to become men of means.

~ George S. Clason

We're like goldfields. Until we dig deep to find what's inside us, our true potentials may be hidden forever.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

As long as you want the belt, don’t run away from the fight. Do what it takes to win the battles you face.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You don't become satisfied because you have a golden spoon in your palm, you become satisfied when it begins to feed you... Use it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

If you have a dream as a child, but you let it go cold, you will grow old only to realize that you have sold your gold for no royalty!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

You don’t have a silver spoon in your mouth. You have a golden spoon in your palms. Use it and feed yourself

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Excellence is making a rubber shoe initially, later making a leather shoe, then later making a leather shoe with gold medal on top and then making a golden shoe with diamond medal on top, going to make a real diamond shoe!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The fact that you are true child of God doesn't mean you will find gold on the floor when sweeping. You got to dig up the gold!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Develop what you have. Project it to the world. God will put a star up there on you. Then the wise men will look for you as they looked for Christ. They are going to bring the gold, the frankinsence and the myrrh. Even if you are hiding in the sheep's pen, they will find you once the star directs them!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Wisdom cannot be compared with a gold.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are men who dig for gold, [Monseigneur Bienvenu] dug for compassion.

~ Victor Hugo

I am a diamond But people see me as goldHonestly, I wanna be silver

~ M

It's not the weather that's bad or good, it's whether you have good or bad mood. It's cloudy and cold, I feel happy and bold, As the storm unfolds, I turn silver in gold!

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Wealth of time is actually of more value than natural resources (petroleum, gold, diamond, gas etc.) and more valuable than human resources.

~ Sunday Adelaja

To attempt to increase the wealth of any country, either by introducing or by detaining in it an unnecessary quantity of gold and silver, is as absurd as it would be to attempt to increase the good cheer of private families by obliging them to keep an unnecessary number of kitchen utensils.

~ Adam Smith

They wonder much to hear that gold which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has value, should yet be thought of less value than this metal. That a man of lead, who has no more sense than a log of wood, and is as bad as he is foolish, should have many wise and good men to serve him, only because he has a great heap of that metal...

~ Thomas More

Thought and knowledge are natures in which apparatus and pretension avail nothing. Gowns, and pecuniary foundations, though of towns of gold, can never countervail the least sentence or syllable of wit. Forget this, and out American colleges will recede in their public importance whilst they grow richer every year.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am too rich already, for my eyes mint

~ Mervyn Peake

A half-dead thing in a stark dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold.

~ Robert W. Service

Grace is more desirable than gold.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The only love you have to prove in life is your love of God and helping others. Anyone that can't see that has proven themselves to be unworthy of your time because why would you spend your life with someone that can't tell the difference between a diamond and dirt?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Overcoming challenges purifies you like gold to become bold.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Uncommon success is found on the spiritual plane; you can't get there through common convention or following others. Hard work is not enough; many work slavishly-hard for little reward. Intelligence is insufficient; how many educated and brilliant people there are who fail utterly and completely. Goodness is not enough; how many meek and good souls are tilled into the earth like manure by demigods to fertilize their golden crops. There is something more — it is the unseen essential, and everyone has access to it.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Within the earth’s womb each metal grows slowly developing and transforming into its perfection, its highest manifestation – gold. Nature and God are striving towards perfection, everything moves towards One. Just as human strive to become fully conscious, so all the metals strive to reach their purest state – gold.

~ Nataša Nuit Pantović

Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

My advice to you, my violent friend, is to seek out gold and sit on it.

~ John Gardner

And the sculptors will shape the soil for the writers to stretch the seedsfor the patient painters who sketch the petals they will shade in alabaster and gold. Their sweat is the rain. Maybe the jazzman will send us a rose.

~ Kristen Henderson

Grace is as good as gold.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

~ John Piper

Either I’ve got a wart on my nose they find curious, or I’ve grown a tail, Albie Merani muttered to himself. Just then he thought. I’d better get a move on, got work to do. He hurried across to some stairs, heading down deeper into station, then followed the signs to the pod station.

~ R.w. Rivers

A gold tooth is to some blacks, what braces are to all whites.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.

~ Conn Iggulden