It is observed of gold, in an old epigram, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Gold that is lent goes away laughing and comes back in tears.
—Turkish Proverb
Gold, like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts.
—Antoine de Rivarol (1753–1801) French Writer, Epigrammatist
Midas longed for gold.—He got it, so that whatever he touched became gold, and he, with his long ears, was little the better for it.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.
—Greek Proverb
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
—Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American Inventor, Philosopher
Better a friend at court than gold on the finger.
—Welsh Proverb
Gold is where you find it.
—U.S. Proverb
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
—Moliere (1622–73) French Playwright
Nothing Gold Can Stay
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
Gold takes no rust.
—Turkish Proverb
Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
—Thomas Hood (1799–1845) English Poet, Humorist
Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
—Bernard M. Baruch (1870–1965) American Financier, Economic Consultant
Golden dishes will never turn black.
—Yiddish Proverb
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
—Thomas Dekker
A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.
—Common Proverb
There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp,—gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both, may indeed attain the highest station, but he must know something more to keep it.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
—Common Proverb
They who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this, have at least one thing to plead in defence of their idolatry—the power of their idol.—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 (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
Gold’s father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.
—Yiddish Proverb
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
—Virgil (70–19 BCE) Roman Poet
The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless, the last corruption of degenerate man.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
—Common Proverb
Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don’t get soaked in the rain.
—Turkish Proverb
Better an ounce of happiness than a pound of gold.
—Yiddish Proverb
Gold will be slave or master.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
Gold is the fool’s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
—Owen Feltham (1602–68) English Essayist
I’m very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
—Woody Allen (b.1935) American Film Actor, Director
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