Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don’t get soaked in the rain.
—Turkish Proverb
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
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
To purchase heaven has gold the power? can gold remove the mortal hour? in life can love be bought with gold? are friendship’s pleasures to be sold? no—all that’s worth a wish—a thought, fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, let nobler views engage thy mind.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.
—Connie Zweig (b.1949) American Minister, Columnist, Psychotherapist
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Gold will be slave or master.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
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
Everything that gristles is not gold.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
—Antoine de Rivarol (1753–1801) French Writer, Epigrammatist
There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
—U.S. Proverb
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
—Moliere (1622–73) French Playwright
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
—Common Proverb
Gold that is lent goes away laughing and comes back in tears.
—Turkish Proverb
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
Bill Russell is one of the great names in basketball, an all-American… and the only athlete to ever win an NCAA Championship, an Olympic Gold Medal, and a professional championship all in the same year—1956…But Bill Russell had this one problem: He threw up before every game.
—John Eliot (b.1971) American Psychologist, Academic
If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.
—Greek Proverb
Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
—Common Proverb
All that glitters is not gold.
—Common Proverb
Gold takes no rust.
—Turkish Proverb
One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
—Claude M. Bristol (1891–1951) American Journalist, Self-Help Author
O cursed lust of gold! when, for thy sake, the fool throws up his interest in both worlds, first starved in this, then damned in that to come!
—Hugh Blair (1718–1800) Scottish Preacher, Scholar, Critic
Better a friend at court than gold on the finger.
—Welsh Proverb
Yes, there are times when the gold medal only goes to the winner. But not in the race of life, where the winners are those who are superior not to others but to their former selves.
—Robert Cooper (b.1947) British Diplomat
Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby, or an old trot with ne’er a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.
—English Proverb
There isn’t a sword that would cut off a golden hand.
—Turkish Proverb
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
—Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian Novelist
How quickly nature falls into revolt
When gold becomes her object!
For this the foolish over-careful fathers
Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care,
Their bones with industry.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright