quotations about gold
It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense.
E. A. BUCCHIANERI
Brushstrokes of a Gadfly
Bright El Dorado, land of gold,
We have so sought for thee,
There's not a spot in all the globe
Where such a land can be.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
Poems from Annuals
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
THOMAS DEKKER
Old Fortunatus
O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,
Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
LORD BYRON
Don Juan
All that glitters is not gold.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Vanity is only to be satisfied by gold in floods.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Gobseck
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we've forgotten there’s any other way.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
This Side of Paradise
There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!
ARISTOPHANES
Plutus
Well, gold contains all things in embryo; gold realizes all things for us.
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
Gobseck
True gold fears no fire.
CHINESE PROVERB
Those who worship Gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in, have at least one thing to plead in defence of their idolatry--the power of their Idol. It is true, that like other Idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, or understand; but, unlike other Idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This Idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
A prize fighter in a corner is told
Hit where it hurts - For Silver and Gold
You can stop the world from turning around
You just gotta pay a penny in the pound.
U2
"Silver & Gold"
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn,
All earthly things but virtue.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
Queen Mab
Nature hath hid gold beneath the earth, as unworthy to be seen; silver hath she placed where thou tramplest it under thy feet; meaneth she not by this to inform thee that gold is not worthy of thy regard--that silver is beneath thy notice? Hath not gold destroyed the virtue of millions? Did it ever add to the goodness of any?
ROBERT DODSLEY
The Economy of Human Life
Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.
AURELIUS CLEMENS PRUDENTIUS
Hamartigenia
Gold and iron are good
To buy iron and gold.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Politics
Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn't produce anything.
WARREN BUFFETT
attributed, Banking on Confidence: A Guidebook to Financial Literacy
Gold gathers more than a shovel.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
To what do you not drive human hearts, cursed for craving gold!
ARIANA FRANKLIN
Mistress of the Art of Death
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Life Without Purpose