Gold Quotes - Page 9

Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.

If you bound the arms and legs of gold-medal swimmer Michael Phelps, weighed him down with chains, threw him in a pool and he sank, you wouldn't call it a 'failure of swimming.' So, when markets have been weighted down by inept and excessive regulation, why call this a 'failure of capitalism'?

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

I've got a new invention. It's a revolving bowl for tired goldfish.

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

Burning hot is the ground, liquid gold is the air; Whoever looks round sees Eternity there.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

My favorite party trick is to wear nothing but a gold thong in the house.

A person with a golden heart is filled with love and likes to see something that he starts completed and done well.

You've learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who are competent. Lastly, you've learned to make gold work for you.

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

Experience, however, shows that neither a state nor a bank ever have [sic] had the unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power; in all states, therefore, the issue of paper money ought to be under some check and control; and none seems so proper for that purpose as that of subjecting the issuers of paper money to the obligation of paying their notes either in gold coin or bullion.

If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

He buries gold who hides the truth.

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.

In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow

It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels.

I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.

Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.

All that glisters is not gold.

My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.