Gold Quotes - Page 28

Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us.

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on.

Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them.

You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?

At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossamer-and gold weighed a ton-and since the world began, gold was the reason to do most anything.

What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold.

Niggers was the ones on the rope, hanging off the thing. Niggas is the ones with gold ropes,hanging out at clubs.

Ill husbandry braggeth To go with the best: Good husbandry baggeth Up gold in his chest.

The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather'd up gold, And now he is dying;- Old age, begin sighing!

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun

If I see another David Gold interview on the poor East End Jewish boy done good I'll impale myself on one of his dildos.

Of course, when you're training your whole life to get to the Olympics, you train for gold.

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise.

Thank you, but diamonds break easier than gold and people shine more through brokenness.

I have the financial morals of a goldfish, I can resist everything but temptation.

So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.

There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it

I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.

The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.