Gold Quotes Quotes & Sayings

With fire we test gold, and with gold we test women, and with women we test men. — Eyden I.

The rainbow is the pot of gold to those who observe. — Thomas F. Shubnell

While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot to rock — Agona Apell

Wisdom cannot be compared with a gold. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man. For my own part, there is no seducing me from the path. I shall be a litterateur, at least, all my life; nor would I abandon the hopes which still lead me on for all the gold in California.
EDGAR ALLAN POE TO FREDERICK WILLIAM THOMAS
FEBRUARY 14, 1849 — Andrew Barger

An inch of gold can't buy an inch of time — Nicole Mones

In the act of selfishness, you bind demerit karma and in the act of sacrificing your own self-interest for the sake of others [selflessness], you bind merit karma. Nevertheless, they are both karma, aren't they? The fruit of merit karma is shackles of gold and fruit of demerit karma is shackles of iron but they are both indeed shackles, aren't they? — Dada Bhagwan

A sacred soul Thus, within the cosmic creation proceed Life is precious as gold Death will come In a better place, where there's no earthly life
Eternity exist...God..... Judgement falls upon us
Nothing to minus and nothing to plus Only the truth
In a better place where there's no cuss They say tranquility exist here
No fuss
No sorrow
A better place with great yarrow It will come in the morrow
In present times Life is but a Dream — Henry Johnson Jr

i knew his heart
was yours
but i wanted
to become
an alchemist
to make gold
of the pieces
i received
because
all i ever felt
was the dark side
of his leaded heart. — K.Y. Robinson

Excellence is a high quality, that delivers the gold nugget of success. — Mark LaMoure

Honor is more costly than gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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A gold cage is still a cage.
-King David I
Oh, go cry in a bag of money.
-Queen Christina — MaryJanice Davidson

But if we wait on this wedding, you can make my dress crimson. I will not wear gold if my Imperial nobility is bought with the blood of innocent civilians who died while I had a party. — Elise Kova

Be loving and kind but be bold.
Seek wisdom but not the gold. — Debasish Mridha

Wisdom is better than an inheritance;
knowledge is worth more than gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I don't want all the silver and gold of the world, Dillon said. What I'm seeking is to know. I want to understand God and I want to know His wisdom. — Pat Patrick

The hotter the furnace the finer the gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The kiss wove between gentle and frenzied, liquid and greedy, silken and primal, and he sucked every second of bliss he could from the forbidden pleasure. — Jami Gold

Honour is more costly than gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Your treasure chest is your mind; not your gold mine. — Debasish Mridha

Because a spoon is made of gold does not change the soup's taste. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I want you to know that life will try to crack you like an egg and your silence will eventually break. Someday you will spill some of those painful secrets and taste a modicum of much-needed freedom. You will lose a great deal as a result but the gains will outweigh every loss. You will love and be loved by a beautiful man in a place where your mutual passion won't be a marker of shame but pride. You will be awkward and alone and alien for a long time but you will transform these qualities, which is to say yourself, into a work of art. You will wear your awkwardness, your aloneness and your alienness in your hair like gold thread. You will adorn your wonkiness on your wrist like a charm bracelet studded with stars. — Diriye Osman

We too can repair our cracks with gold
And glow again.
Crazed by life,
More beautiful than ever before. — Scott Hastie

He who sees a gold bullion more valuable than a tree has surely an intelligence much less than a donkey's! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am but as the spark that gleams for a moment,
His burning candle consumed me - the moth;
His wine overwhelmed my goblet,
The master of Rum transmuted my earth to gold
And set my ashes aflame. — Muhammad Iqbal

Scars are the medals of success, not the glitters or the gold. — Debasish Mridha

Neither gold nor diamonds mine themselves. — Johnnie Dent Jr.

This was home. This was perfection. This was everything he'd never known he wanted. (Griff) — Jami Gold

Yeah, cause that would be a smart choice. So, I should just forget about the whole lying to me thing when you pronounce you will never do it again?"
"Yes."
"You'd have a better chance getting a donkey to shit gold. — Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

Dream for life; dream for love; dream for a better world. The purpose of life should not be only to achieve silver and gold. — Debasish Mridha

An ordinary potato has had more value than gold several times in history. — K.R. Royal

See everything, but judge nothing. Just choose your own path and let others choose their own. See everything, but judge no one. Just focus on your own path and let others focus on their own. See everything, but judge not what you see. You have your own inner worlds to conquer, your own inner gardens to water and to hone. You have your own inner gold to mine. See all, judge not, know thyself. — C. JoyBell C.

A teaspoon of honey is worth more to the bee than a barrel of gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

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

From rocks come gold.
From coal comes diamonds.
From oysters come pearls.
From caterpillars come butterflies.
From adversity come the great. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Now the city is at its loveliest. The crowds of summer and autumn have gone, the air has a new freshness, the light has that pale-gold quality unique to this time of year. There have been several weeks of this weather now, without a drop of rain. — Lucy Foley

Throw a champion into the ocean, and he'll swim.
Throw a champion into the pit, and he'll climb.
Throw him off a cliff, and he'll grow wings.
Throw him into a furnace, and he'll become gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

When you hit the rock bottom of life, ponder! A precious gold might be there! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The car was some kind of Porsche and the door stood open and beckoning, like a gold embossed invitation to sin
If she could survive a ride with angel-lips in his penis car then surely she'd be immune to him in any situation? — Amy Andrews

Wednesday had come and gone in a single breath. As I dreamt of divine love, Picasso, and a vast field of gold, a new dawn had already begun. — Terry A. O'Neal

When the stars imploded billions of years ago, iron and silver, gold and carbon came raining down. And the iron from that stardust is in us today-in our mitochondria. Mothers pass on the stars and their iron to their children. Who knows, Jean, you and I might be made of the dust from one and the same star, and maybe we recognized each other by its light. We were searching for each other. We are star seekers. — Nina George

The upright are richer in deeds than the wealthy are in gold. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Depending on the day or even the hour, productivity can take very low dips. At times, I may feel like throwing in the towel. I love being inspired by amazing women who have achieved great things. When I have a setback, I will spend 15 minutes reading quotes from strong women or reading or watching an interview with a woman I admire (a gold medalist or a CEO). This gets me back in the right mindset to tackle any challenge. — Samantha Ettus

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

The best and biggest gold mine is in between your ears. To find the gold, think deeply and think better. — Debasish Mridha

In this life, we reap the results of everything that we do; even if the things that we do and the things that we become, are the direct results of circumstances that we could have never controlled, in the first place. They say we are never given more than we can handle; but I don't believe that. We are often given more than we can handle, and that's why so many of us are so broken. The jar breaks when there's too much to handle. The only beauty in all of this, is that jars can be repaired with gold; and because of that, they can become even more beautiful than they were before. — C. JoyBell C.

Do you like books, Lady Murray?' Lavinia asked.
'Just to read,' Violet said.
'A mistake. A very big mistake. A poorly bound book disintegrates. Where would our learning be then? We need something permanent, solid. We need to treat words with the respect they are due. Treasure them. Adorn the books that contain these words with leather bindings, illuminate their words with gold. We shouldn't treat learning lightly.'
'But I would treat a word scrawled on a scrap of paper with the same respect as one written on an illuminated manuscript. — Alice Thompson

My bosses would be beyond pissed if tomorrow's New York Times read: "Solid gold tiger eats stupid couple who were taking photos of it with their camera phone. — R.R. Virdi

Don't go digging for silver in somebody else's backyard when you've got gold in your own. — Lattis R. Richards

I'm a very quiet person[introvert] but I love myself, I love my personality and I wouldn't change it for any gold or silver because I know God doesn't make a mistake. — Euginia Herlihy

Gold may shine; but it has no true light. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

You are a gold mine of potential power. You have to dig to find it and make it real. — Debasish Mridha

The Captain was wearing his best blousey shirt, his beard was gleaming in the early morning light and he'd polished all his gold teeth. As he strode manfully towards the shore, the only thing that could have make him look even more heroic that he already did would have been the theme to Flash Gordon playing in the background, but it was a hundred and seventy years too early for that. — Gideon Defoe

There lived a poet in the lands of gold,
Wrote along poems unaffected by warmth or cold,
His words spoke truth and pen's stroke was bold,
His only motive: lives to mould — Adhish Mazumder

Love is the ultimate Wonder lamp, anything you touch with love become gold. — Debasish Mridha

We stand on the shores of a Mystery, carried by the beauty of the horizon into fantasy that gives birth to our reality.
So live like each moment is filled with gold. — Tessa Taylar

Water is gold in the desert. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Gold and diamonds are not out there it is inside your mind.
You can create it with thoughtfulness and becoming kind. — Debasish Mridha

There are great lessons to be learn't in every trail. Look for the gold in every encounter. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Your mind is the biggest uninvented gold mine. Dig it; you will find the gold. — Debasish Mridha

Love in your heart is better than gold in your hands. — Matshona Dhliwayo

For $425 you can buy pills containing real gold that make your poop sparkle. How have I lived this long without sparkly poop? — Michael Makai

I could see why someone would want to make a website about me, and my quotes. They are all gold. How many people have written, directed AND starred in their own movies. I just don't know why they would want to put words into my mouth, I mean I did write, direct AND star in a critically acclaimed movie. — Zach Braff

I don't care if the streets of Heaven are gold or not as long as they're clean and I don't have to sweep them. — John Northcutt Young

Love is like gold, you may strike a vein with less effort, or may have to go through tons of rocks to find it — Bangambiki Habyarimana

No, I don't have a heart of gold. It's normal - the one that gets hurt by rude words and broken promises. — Saru Singhal

The greatest skeptic must now admit that the land and sea-borne trade of India had given her a world-wide fame not only for her gold, spices and silk, but for her religions and philosophies also. — Virchand Gandhi

For all of my life, I am digging deep in my heart to find the liquid gold of love to share. — Debasish Mridha

A heart of gold is where the rainbow begins. — Tammy L. Kubasko

As water downs ships but upholds leaves,
and as fires burn cities but refines gold,
so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatness
and the proud to ruin. — Matshona Dhliwayo

People imagined the Cockaigne ("Land of Plenty") menu as full of delectable meats such as hare, deer and wild boar . all which let themselves be caught. Grilled fish leaped out of rivers of wine onto your plate. Roast geese waddled down streets paved in pastry, just begging to be eaten. Flying pigs and buttered birds fell from the sky like rain, directly into people's mouths. People lived in edible houses made of pancake roofs and walls made of sausage. — Bob Eckstein