Quotes About Gold

For if anything in the world is desirable, so desirable that even the dull and uneducated herd in its more reflective moments would value it more than silver and gold, it is that a ray of light should fall on the obscurity of our existence, and that we should obtain some information about this enigmatical life of ours, in which nothing is clear except its misery and vanity.

One day you wake up and realize the world can be conquered... I'm going to put a mask on and scrawl my name across the face of the world, build cities of gold, come back and stomp this place flat, until even the bricks are just dust. So you can just shut up. All of you. I'm going to move the world.

So this was where lust was satisfied. If I'd been an old-time miner I'd have asked for my gold nugget back.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

The code of competence is the only system of morality that's on a gold standard.

They say a fool and his gold are soon parted, but they ought to say too that those who refuse ever to be parted from gold are the greatest fools of all.

Whenever anything happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

Overcoming challenges purifies you like gold to become bold.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!

I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.

It could be a spoonful of diamonds, could be a spoonful of gold. Just a little spoon of your precious love satisfies my soul.

The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.

When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.

What is't to be adorn'd and shine with Gold, Drest like a God, but never know the Pleasure?

Truth is the trial of itselfAnd needs no other touch,And purer than the purest gold,Refine it ne'er so much.

Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold,And almost every vice—almighty gold.

With the money supply no longer constrained by the amount of gold held by the government, deflation stopped almost immediately.

Early morning hath gold in its mouth.

And I really felt like I would regret never accomplishing my goals on the beach, or missing special moments with my kids, more than I would miss winning a third gold medal.

I grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, so in Iowa, we didn't have a pro sports team, so it was all about the Hawks, and everybody was a Hawkeyes fan, and everybody had their black and gold and had something Hawkeye related.

To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferior in value to gold, and then - because those prices are nominally higher than gold prices - to say that they are inflated, relatively to gold, is a perfect absurdity.