Quotes
Quotes about Gold
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.
And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, "I have found it! Eureka!"
All is not gold that glisters.
We read of a certain Roman emperor who built a magnificent palace. In digging the foundation, the workmen discovered a golden sarcophagus ornamented with three circlets, on which were inscribed, "I have expended; I have given; I have kept; I have possessed; I do possess; I have lost; I am punished. What I formerly expended, I have; what I gave away, I have."
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom,
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,
Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,
And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose?
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
A lost ounce of gold may be found, a lost moment of time never.
About the only worthwhile thing you can learn from a bore is how truly golden silence can be.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
How can you sing if your mouth be filled with food? How shall your hand be raised in blessing if it is filled with gold?
Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.
If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot.
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value to its scarcity.
Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - The House of Gold.
