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Quotes About Gold

Vanity is only to be satisfied by gold in floods.
~ balzac honore de vi
Hope is the future lined in gold
~ Barbara Delinsky
Hope is the future lined in gold, my mother used to say, but I didn't agree. Hope wasn't the future. It was only a vehicle to get there.
~ Barbara Delinsky
Call no man free nor count his bondage done, Though he be master of unminted gold With kings to do him homage, if his hold Be not so strong on the immortal sun--The shining, heliocentric Self—that none May loosen it.
~ barker elsa v
A man from the west will fight over three things: water, women and gold, and usually in that order.
~ Barry Goldwater
Reality television is to television what marble and gold are to real estate. The point is to dispense with the idea of taste. It's all id. The more unrestrained the better. We all know that 'reality' in reality television is not real. That anybody who would participate in reality television is a fake. But pretending otherwise makes them real.
~ Michael Wolff
I can't immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.
~ TobyMac
The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
~ Georg Trakl
There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.
~ John Buchanan Robinson
The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
~ Saint Ambrose
These gold chains and pendants I've been collecting from 1975. None of them are new and mostly - Hare Krishna Hare Rama, Ganpati, Satyanarayan, Hanuman - all god-related pendants.
~ Bappi Lahiri
I'll do BB cream or a moisturizing foundation from Laura Mercier. I like golds or coppers on my eyes and a little highlight on my cheeks.
~ Peyton List
The world is like a picture with a golden background and we the figures in that picture. Until you step off the plane of the picture into the large dimensions of death you cannot see the gold. But we have reminders of it.-George MacDonald *Gold being Heaven *Picture being life
~ George MacDonald
You first learned to live upon less than you could earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who were competent through their own experiences to give it. And, lastly, you have learned to make gold work for you.
~ George S. Clason
This, then, is the fourth cure for a lean purse, and of great importance if it prevent thy purse from being emptied once it has become well filled. Guard thy treasure from loss by investing only where thy principal is safe, where it may be reclaimed if desirable, and where thou will not fail to collect a fair rental. Consult with wise men. Secure the advice of those experienced in the profitable handling of gold. Let their wisdom protect thy treasure from unsafe investments.
~ George S. Clason
I am a gold lender because I own more gold than I can use in my own trade. I desire my surplus gold to labor for others and thereby earn more gold. I do not wish to take risk of losing my gold for I have labored much and denied myself much to secure it. Therefore, I will no longer lend any of it where I am not confident that it is safe and will be returned to me. Neither will I lend it where I am not convinced that its earnings will be promptly paid to me.
~ George S. Clason
For a man to wish to be rich is of little purpose. For a man to desire five pieces of gold is a tangible desire which he can press to fulfillment.
~ George S. Clason
had I but sought wisdom first, my gold would not have been lost to me.
~ George S. Clason
Without wisdom, gold is quickly lost by those who have it, but with wisdom, gold can be secured by those who have it not, as these three bags of gold do prove.
~ George S. Clason
Gold clingeth to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling.
~ George S. Clason
He came to me in distress when his gold was gone. I counseled with him.
~ George S. Clason
Gold slippeth away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those skilled in its keep.
~ George S. Clason
I desired it be round and full, clinking with the sound of gold.
~ George S. Clason
MEN OF ACTION ARE FAVORED BY THE GODDESS OF GOOD LUCK     The Five Laws of Gold     A bag heavy with gold or a clay tablet carved with words of wisdom; if thou hadst thy choice, which wouldst thou choose?     By the flickering light from the fire of desert shrubs, the sun-tanned faces of the listeners gleamed with interest.     The gold, the gold, chorused the twenty-seven.
~ George S. Clason