Quotes and Sayings About Gold
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
-- A. B. YehoshuaSource : "Boundaries and Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.
-- Abraham CowleySource : Abraham Cowley (1721). “([2], lxviii, 372 p.)”, p.44
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Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
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Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
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On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
-- Adelbert von ChamissoSource : Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial
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Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.
-- Adele -
I want all the gold that there is out there — everything that exists in figure skating. In all events, in all competitions.
-- Adelina Sotnikova -
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To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.
-- Adelina Sotnikova -
All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All pervading Vishnu , whose nature is Existence- Intelligence ; just as the different ornaments are all made out of the same gold.
-- Adi ShankaraSource : "Atma Bodh" translated by Swami Chinmayananda, Chinmaya Mission, (p. 16), 1987.
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Gold is not necessary. I have no interest in gold. We'll build a solid state, without an ounce of gold behind it. Anyone who sells above the set prices, let him be marched off to a concentration. That's the bastion of money.
-- Adolf Hitler -
It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for 'Scent of a Woman.' It was a new feeling. I'd never felt it. I don't see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
-- Al Pacino -
Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.
-- Alain de Lille -
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
-- Alain de Lille -
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A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.
-- Alan Brennert -
Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.
-- Alan Cohen -
Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.
-- Alan GreenspanSource : "Gold is again proving its value in a risky world" by George Trefgarne, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 23, 2002.
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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
-- Alan Greenspan -
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
-- Alan Kay -
And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.
-- Alan Paton -
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I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.
-- Albert Einstein -
You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.
-- Alejandro Jodorowsky -
And frankly, I'm a huge gold digger and The Miz is about to make a lot of money!
-- Alex Riley -
Oh, when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll'd, And vanquished realms supply recording gold?
-- Alexander Pope -
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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.
-- Alexander Pope -
And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
-- Alexander Pope