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
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
—Thomas Dekker
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
—Virgil (70–19 BCE) Roman Poet
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
When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.
—English Proverb
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 Author, Psychotherapist
The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
—Byron Katie (b.1942) American Speaker, Author
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
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
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 K. Cooper (b.1957) American Author, Psychologist
Gold is where you find it.
—U.S. Proverb
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
—Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American Inventor, Philosopher
Nothing Gold Can Stay.
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
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
All that glitters is not gold.
—Common Proverb
If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.
—Greek 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
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
—Common Proverb
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
—Antoine de Rivarol (1753–1801) French Writer, Epigrammatist
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
There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls.
—U.S. 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 will be slave or master.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
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
Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg.
—Common Proverb
A golden key will open every lock.
—Yiddish Proverb
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
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
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