Gold Quotes - Page 20

The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.

The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise.

A writer who has never explored words, who has never searched, seeded, sieved, sifted through his knowledge and memory...dictiona ries, thesaurus, poems, favorite paragraphs, to find the right word, is like someone owning a gold mine who has never mined it.

Most people put money in their piggy bank. I buy a goose that lays golden eggs over and over again. That's what an asset is.

Death is the lot of us all, and the only way that the human race has ever conquered death is by treating it with contempt. By living every golden minute as if one had all Eternity.

The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.

Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

Put yourself in your customer's place.

Gold is the corpse of value.

Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

Life isn’t fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish. (from Rush of Blood)

In dreams, through longings, we can see— All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be— But that will never, ever, grow.

The goose that lays golden eggs has been considered a most valuable possession. But even more profitable is the privilege of taking the golden eggs laid by somebody else's goose. The investment bankers and their associates now enjoy that privilege.

The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

These too are of a burning color--not orange, not gold, but if pure gold were liquid and could raise a cream, that golden cream might be like the color of the poppies.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.

I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals.

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.

Economic theory has nothing to say as to what commodity will acquire the status of money. Historically, it happened to be gold. But if the physical makeup of our world would have been different or is to become different from what it is now, some other commodity would have become or might become money. The market will decide.

Monetary freedom (gold: sound money), like all other economic freedoms, clears the way for energy, intellect and virtue... Political control weakens individual self-reliance and energy, causes want and poverty and, in the end, breeds tyranny and oppression.

The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.