Gold Quotes - Page 30
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”
Lysander Spooner (1873). “A New Banking System: the Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District”, p.21
The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, We cannot cage the minute Within its nets of gold
'Sunlight on the Garden' (1938)
It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.
Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”
Karl Marx (2016). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Volume I: The Economist”, p.27, VM eBooks
In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.
Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.896, Delphi Classics
Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.
John Webster (1859). “The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes”, p.245
If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.
John Piper (2013). “Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”, p.205, B&H Publishing Group
Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer' (1817)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.260