Top 61 Gold Quotes That You Should Know

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Gold helps make the world go round. Without money, you can’t seem to do anything. With that in mind, check out the top 61 gold quotes.

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#61 – 60. Gold Quotes

61. Pure gold does not rust. Only gold alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the company of toxic people, your become “a gold alloy” and what that means is that you can rust at any time! – Israelmore Ayivor

60. Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold. – George Herbert

#59 – 50. Gold Quotes

59. Where gold speaks, every tongue is silent. – Italian Proverb

58. Gold makes monsters of men. – Erin Bowman

57. Gold is what people worship if they don’t go with the invisible God. – James Dye

56. All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. – Plato

55. More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. – Napoleon Hill

54. Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair. – Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

53. O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour. – Lord Byron

52. If you are sick, think about your life; if you are better, think about your gold. – Mongolian Proverb

51. It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. – Thomas Fuller

50. That is gold which is worth gold. – George Herbert

#49 – 40. Gold Quotes

49. When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotent. – Publilius Syrus

48. Gold gathers more than a shovel. – Edward Counsel

47. Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning’s bolt. – Horace

46. Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

45. Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men. – Ron Paul

44. The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on. – Joseph French Johnson

43. Gold begets in brethren hate, Gold in families debate, Gold does friendship separate, Gold does civil wars create. – Abraham Cowley

42. Second-hand gold is as good as new. – Ken Alstad

41. Well, gold contains all things in embryo; gold realizes all things for us. – Honoré De Balzac

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

#39 – 30. Gold Quotes

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

38. If it were possible to cure evils by lamentation and to raise the dead with tears, then gold would be a less valuable thing than weeping. – Sophocles

37. Gold makes the ugly beautiful. – Moli

36. Gold has worked down from Alexander’s time… When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory. – Bernard Baruch

35. Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away. – Sextus Propertius

34. Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

33. Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. – Antoine Rivarol

32. There is no honest man – not one – that can resist the attraction of gold! – Aristophanes

31. Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn’t produce anything. – Warren Buffett

30. He fishes well who uses a golden hook. – Latin Proverb

#29 – 20. Gold Quotes

29. The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold. – G. K. Chesterton

28. A mask of gold hides all deformities. – Thomas Dekker

27. Real gold is not afraid of the melting pot. – Chinese Proverb

26. Gold will be slave or master. – Horace

25. O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good. ― Euripides

24. Gold’s father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble. – Yiddish Proverb

23. If u have money buy gold. It is going to double in value. – James Dye

22. As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time. – English Proverb

21. Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver! – Mehmet Murat ildan

20. Gold authenticity can only be tested under maximum fire. The same holds true with regard to manhood. – Moutasem Algharati