Gold Quotes - Page 23

• Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through the value you bestow on them, o queen, ships contending on the sea and yoked teams of horses in swift-whirling contests become marvels.

  Pindar

  Mother, Horse, Queens

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• That was such an important time for us, as a team. It was our second gold medal in a row, following Salt Lake City, and really established ourselves as the best team in the world.

  Hayley Wickenheiser

  Team, Lakes, Cities

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• Next to gold and jewelry, health is the most important thing you can have.

  Phyllis Diller

  Important, Next, Jewelry

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• Spencer was searching for a woman interested in gold, inorganic chemistry, outdoor sex and the music of Bach. In short, he was looking for himself, only female.

  Woody Allen

  Sex, Female, Chemistry

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• It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Use, Teeth, Vulgar

  Louis Kronenberger (1972). “A Mania for Magnificence”

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• Gold will buy the highest honours; and gold will purchase love.

  Ovid

  Honour, Highest

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.318, Delphi Classics

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• The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mistake, Coins, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1838). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh ; In Three Books ...”, p.129

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• It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Journey, Men, Giving

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4407, Library of Alexandria

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• [V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Garden, Weather, Ivory

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• The poems are all wrong. It's a bang, a really big bang. Not a whimper. And sometimes gold can stay.

  Kami Garcia

  Bangs, Sometimes, Bigs

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• Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.

  Paul Eldridge

  Consumerism, Avarice

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• Yeah we shine, gold cluster. As for your career? Dead, Ghost Busters.

  Nicki Minaj

  Careers, Shining, Ghost

  "Lil Kim Takes Shoots at Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Birdman in Freestyles", www.mtv.com. November 10, 2011.

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• We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons.

  Wangari Maathai

  Thinking, Important, Skins

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• Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred the Great

  New Year, War, Pride

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John.

  Oscar Wilde

  Lying, College, Oxford

  Oscar Wilde (1999). “De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings”, p.231, Wordsworth Editions

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• Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.

  John Denham

  Guilt, Foam, Amber

  John Denham, “Cooper's Hill”

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• While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

  Ryan Adams

  Laughter, Passion, Heart

  Ryan Adams (2009). “Infinity Blues”, p.232, Akashic Books

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• Our two souls therefore which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.

  John Donne

  Two, Soul, Expansion

  c.1595-1605 'A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning', collected in Songs and Sonnets (1633).

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• One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold in Shantung is more than double the number of men representing Southern Baptists! What a lesson for Southern Baptists to ponder!

  Lottie Moon

  Men, Numbers, Southern

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• I will keep a substantial long exposure to gold -- which serves as a Jelly Donut antidote for my portfolio. While I'd love for our leaders to adopt sensible policies that would reduce the tail risks so that I could sell our gold, one nice thing about gold is that it doesn't even have quarterly conference calls.

  David Einhorn

  Nice, Long, Leader

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• Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

  Franz Grillparzer

  Thinking, May, Hunger

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• When Turkey buys Iranian oil, we pay for it in Turkish lira... However, it is not possible for Iran to take that money as dollars into its own country due to international restrictions, the U.S.A.s sanctions. Therefore, when Iran cannot take this money back as currency, they withdraw Turkish lira and buy gold from our market.

  Ali Babacan

  Country, Iran, Turkeys

  "Iran importing gold to evade economic sanctions, Turkish official says" by Ivan Watson and Gul Tuysuz, www.cnn.com. November 29, 2012.

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• The secret of evangelism is Guy's golden touch - whatever is gold, Guy touches. That’s very different than saying whatever Guy touches turns gold.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Guy, Secret, Different

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• I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, People, Vienna

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• A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Pennies, Painter, Turns

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