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
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
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
—Virgil (70–19 BCE) Roman Poet
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
Gold’s father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.
—Yiddish Proverb
Better a friend at court than gold on the finger.
—Welsh Proverb
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
—Thomas Dekker
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
Everything that gristles is not gold.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Gold that is lent goes away laughing and comes back in tears.
—Turkish Proverb
A man of straw is worth a woman of gold.
—Common Proverb
All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
—Plato (428 BCE–347 BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Mathematician, Educator
One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
—Claude M. Bristol (1891–1951) American Journalist, Self-Help Author
Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold.
—Aristotle (384BCE–322BCE) Ancient Greek Philosopher, Scholar
The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless, the last corruption of degenerate man.
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
Golden dishes will never turn black.
—Yiddish Proverb
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
Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
—Thomas Hood (1799–1845) English Poet, Humorist
If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.
—Greek Proverb
Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold…
—Bob Marley (1945–81) Jamaican Musician, Singer, Songwriter
Gold is the fool’s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.
—Owen Feltham (1602–1668) English Essayist
When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.
—English Proverb
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
Nothing Gold Can Stay
—Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet
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
Gold will be slave or master.
—Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet
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
As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.
—Chilon of Sparta (c.556 BCE) Spartan Magistrate
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
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
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