Quotes About Precious metal

But when God speaks, it's silver. Psalm 12:6 says, "The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace…purified seven times." Purity and silver go together best when it comes to describing God's Word. Why does God choose this precious metal? Perhaps it's because gold requires impurities so it can bond. But not silver. God is less interested in attractiveness and more interested in purity.

The old drunk told me about trout fishing. When he could talk, he had a way of describing trout as if they were a precious and intelligent metal.

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

asked. As a result, while credit systems tend to dominate in periods of relative social peace, or across networks of trust (whether created by states or, in most periods, transnational institutions like merchant guilds or communities of faith), in periods characterized by widespread war and plunder, they tend to be replaced by precious metal.

I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, But gold that's put to use more gold begets.

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.

gold n. [mass noun] 1 a yellow precious metal, the chemical element of atomic number 79, used in jewellery and decoration and to guarantee the value of currencies. (Symbol: Au) [with modifier] an alloy of gold: 9-carat gold.

Golden arrow? And what would we do with a golden arrow? Give it to Alan for a lute string? I could hang it around my neck on a chain, perhaps, and let it stab me in the ribs when I tried to sit.

A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.

I have a love for anything gold.

Gold is hoarded. It's estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

All the gold in the world would fit in a cube roughly twenty meters on each side.

I've reached a point where I feel the only asset I have confidence in is gold.

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 its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

Sure, it's illegal to melt down your nickels (for now), but the point is, "I won't need to melt it down because once they change the way they make the nickel, the old nickels become even more valuable than before because scarcity sets in as they begin to remove them from circulation.

In America time was gold; in Bangladesh, corrugated tin.

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 its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.

As a precious metal, silver is also money.

Es ist das ewige Staunen aller Naturkinder an allen Enden der Erde über die Kulturmenschen, denen eine Handvoll gelbes Metall kostbarer erscheint als alle geistigen und technischen Errungenschaften ihrer Kultur.

You'd rather own gold; never own the miner.

Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold

Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.