Gold Quotes - Page 3

• Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

  Bob Marley

  Inspirational, Music, Wisdom

  Bob Marley (1982*). “Bob Marley & Other Sounds' Lyrics”

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• Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.

  Abraham Cowley

  Hate, War, Doe

  Abraham Cowley (1721). “([2], lxviii, 372 p.)”, p.44

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• Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

  Laurence Sterne

  Honor, Titles, Add

  "The Works of Laurence Sterne".

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• Until government administrators can so identify the interests of government with those of the people and refrain from defrauding the masses through the device of currency depreciation for the sake of remaining in office, the wiser ones will prefer to keep as much of their wealth in the most stable and marketable forms possible - forms which only the precious metals provide.

  Elgin Groseclose

  Government, People, Office

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• Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

  Paracelsus

  Men, Silver, Figs

  Paracelsus, Jolande Jacobi (1951). “Selected Writings”, p.125, Princeton University Press

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• Water is best, but gold shines like fire blazing in the night, supreme of lordly wealth.

  Pindar

  Night, Fire, Water

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• It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.

  William McFee

  Emotional, Weather, Safety

  William McFee (1916). “Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul”

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• An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold, whether it consists of guineas, sovereigns or eagles.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Eagles, Guinea

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• There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Soul, Poison

  Aidan Coleman, Shane Barnes, William Shakespeare (2008). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.133, Insight Publications

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• Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

  Richard Barnfield

  Persuading, Orators

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• For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

  John Burroughs

  Love, Life, Motivational

  John Burroughs, Charlotte Zoë Walker (2001). “The Art of Seeing Things: Essays”, p.239, Syracuse University Press

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• A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Children, Tyrants, People

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

  William Shakespeare

  Money, Use, Rust

  William Shakespeare (2001). “Twelfth Night: Or, What You Will”, p.184, Classic Books Company

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• Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

  Karl Marx

  Buying Gold, Silver, Gold And Silver

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.126, OUP Oxford

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• In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.

  Lysander Spooner

  Reality, Paper, Currency

  Lysander Spooner (1873). “A New Banking System: the Needful Capital for Rebuilding the Burnt District”, p.21

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• Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Strong, Tragedy, Literature

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.248, Cambridge University Press

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• The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.

  James Surowiecki

  Real, Government, People

  "Why Gold?". www.newyorker.com. November 29, 2004.

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• Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

  David Ricardo

  Arbitrary, Scarcity, Finance

  David Ricardo, John Ramsay McCulloch (1846). “The Works of David Ricardo ...”, p.263

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• All that glisters is not gold.

  Common

  Inspirational, Venice, Appearance

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• Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Thumbs, Golden, Honest

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1881). “The prologue to the Canterbury tales, with notes by E.F. Willoughby”

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• The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.

  Gerald M. Loeb

  Race, Desire, Instinct

  Gerald M. Loeb (2007). “Battle for Investment Survival”, p.102, John Wiley & Sons

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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

  States, Concentration, Interest

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• It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Sorrow, Want

  "The Rambler".

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• Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Hypocrite, Class, Climate

  Charles Caleb Colton (1849). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Address--to Those who Think”, p.124

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• What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

  Warren Buffett

  Party, Belief, Commodity

  "Treasury commitee struggles to hide scorn over Osborne's Help to Buy plan" by Nils Pratley, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2013.

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