Gold Quotes

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

Magic Sandra's seen a leprechaun, Eddie touched a troll, Laurie danced with witches once, Charlie found some goblins gold. Donald heard a mermaid sing, Susy spied an elf, But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of paduasoy and taffeta - there lived a tailor in Gloucester.

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of what you're doing is as valuable as gold

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.

The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.

Sometimes it's important to work for that pot of gold. But other times it's essential to take time off and to make sure that your most important decision in the day simply consists of choosing which color to slide down on the rainbow

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

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

Gold is the corpse of value...

You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?/ For if a priest be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.

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.

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.

Love is the only gold.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

The strength of the United States is not the gold at Fort Knox or the weapons of mass destruction that we have, but the sum total of the education and the character of our people.

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.

Not all that tempts your wandering eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all that glisters gold.

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

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

You'll never find your gold on a sandy beach.

You've learned the lessons well. You first learned to live on less than you earn. Next you learned to seek advice from those who are competent. Lastly, you've learned to make gold work for you.

It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.

Base metals can be transmuted into gold by stars, and by intelligent beings who understand the processes that power stars, but by nothing else in the universe.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.

The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.

Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!

Everyone can get the gold of the Sun. (Tout le monde cueille - L'or du soleil)

With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.

Every honest miller has a golden thumb.

Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.

Hyt is not al golde that glareth.

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same.

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

Gold will be slave or master.

An American credit card...is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

What female heart can gold despise? What cat 's averse to fish?

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.

Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.

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.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Night's darkness is the bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.