Quotes About Gold

Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

Intrinsic purity [bodhi] is like pollen in the common lotus, Like grains in chaff, and gold in dirt, Like a treasure under the soil, and seeds in pods, Like an image of Buddha wrapped in rags, Like a prince in the womb of a common woman, Like a heap of gold beneath the earth. Thus, the nature of enlightenment remains hidden in all sentient beings Who are overcome by transitory defilement.

English Pirates Like the Netherlands, England was a Protestant country threatened by the Catholic might of Spain at sea and France on land. As things stood in the second half of the 16th century, the English crown had nothing to lose by encouraging private ship-owners to make a living out of pirating the slow and heavy Spanish merchant ships returning from South America laden with gold and silver.

the patron must have been wealthy enough to afford these expensive materials – we know that paintings such as these were seen as symbols of wealth since in the contracts between artists and patrons there were often clauses stating how much gold and semi-precious pigments were to be used.

Sir Graham was in his best uniform. The one that had never seen sea service, but was reserved for only the most honored of occasions, the gold buttons and lace and epaulets blindingly bright in the sun, the medal of the Nile around his neck, the broad red sash of knighthood across his right shoulder. His hands were clasped behind his back; a sailor he was, even here, and he was smiling, his eyes radiant with love as he caught sight of her and watched her move slowly down the path, toward him.

A dollar vigilante is a free market individual who protests the government monopoly and financial policies, such as fractional reserve banking and unbacked fiat currencies, by selling those same fiat currencies in favor of other assets, including gold and precious metals.

Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Beauty and strength were, both of them, much esteemed; Then wealth was discovered and soon after gold Which quickly became more honoured than strength or beauty. For men, however strong or beautiful, Generally follow the train of a richer man.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

Where the currency depreciation is a result of government inflation carried out by the issue of notes, it is possible to avert its disastrous effect on economic calculation by conducting all bookkeeping in a stable money instead. But so far as the depreciation is a depreciation of gold, the world money, there is no such easy way out.

Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras ; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.

he had eyes lifted up to Heaven, the best of books in his hand, the law of truth written upon his lips, the world behind his back. He stood as if pleading with men, and a crown of gold hung over his head. Then

Oh! I saw my gold was in my trunk at home!  In Christ my Lord and Saviour.  Now Christ was all; all my wisdom, all my righteousness, all my sanctification, and all my redemption.

Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.

What tender force, what dignity divine, what virtue consecrating every feature; around that neck what dross are gold and pearl!

Was it a miracle? It was as if they had dreamt of a pot of gold and woken to find it on their pillow. As if they had told a tale of a fairy princess and finished it only to find her sitting in a corner of the room, listening.

the wealth they had accumulated from retail needed to hide its origins, for it is well known that the purity of gold increases the further removed it is from labor.

And someplace, if there is a place where lists are kept, and credit given, I am sure there is a gold star by his name.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.

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.