gold quotes

• Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. (John Updike) [art/gold]
• It is not all gold that glareth. (Geoffrey Chaucer) [gold]
• One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself. (Claude M. Bristol) [gold/spirit]
• A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. (Richard Burton) [gold]
• Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it. (Samuel Butler) [wisdom/gold]
• Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal. (Samuel Butler) [animals/virtue/gold/more]
• A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. (Samuel Butler) [virtue/gold/more]
• The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [age/men/gold]
• A mask of gold hides all deformities. (Thomas Dekker) [gold]
• The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers; a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [war/gold/speak/imagination]
• The proof of gold is fire... (Benjamin Franklin) [gold]
• It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. (Thomas Fuller) [gold]
• The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity. (Robert Graves) [award/gold/poetry]
• More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. (Napoleon Hill) [more/gold/thoughts/men]
• Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. (Thomas Hood) [gold/gold/gold/cold]
• Gold will be slave or master. ( Horace) [gold/willpower/slave/master]
• Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor. (Samuel Johnson) [gold]
• Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. (Samuel Johnson) [gold/value]
• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen. (John Keats) [gold]
• Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old! (George Meredith) [look/wisdom/gold/price]
• As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. ( Ovid) [gold/faith]
• Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. ( Seneca) [gold/men]
• I did send to you for certain sums of gold, which you denied me. (William Shakespeare) [gold]
• How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver. (Oscar Wilde) [strange/thing/gold]
• I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card. (Victoria Adams) [gold]
• He worked as a doctor for 30 years and as far as I know, never stood up in front of millions of people and got a gold shiny thing for it, which seems ridiculous someone who pretends to do that should be honored and recognized, but it's a crazy world, you know? (Hugh Laurie) [people/gold/thing/crazy]
• The Methods record went gold in America, Japan, Canada. (Tommy Lee) [gold/america]
• “Canada's quest for gold has shuffled the market to a standstill, ... Only the Americans are left to trade the market because their game doesn't start until later.” (Tom Green) [gold/market/market]
• Studio executives and exhibitors were busy playing poker and trying to figure out how to exploit the Swanson gold mine to the fullest. (Gloria Swanson) [poker/gold]
• I was convinced that olympic gold medal lay in the range of the possible. This victory was a realistic goal. (Cathy Freeman) [gold]
• They'll appreciate an Olympic gold medallist trying to live her life as normally as possible. (Cathy Freeman) [gold/life]

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