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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
#19 – 10. Gold Quotes
19. If speaking is silver, then listening is gold. ― Turkish Proverb
18. Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired. – Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
17. If gold rusts, what then can iron do? – Geoffrey Chaucer
16. Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don’t get soaked in the rain. – Turkish Proverb
15. Gold often commends the unworthy. – Edward Counsel
14. Gold stimulates the heart, or so we’re told. He therefore had a special love of gold. – Geoffrey Chaucer
13. To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow. – Johnson
12. The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. – Gerald M. Loeb
11. Gold, Gold, Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. – Thomas Hood
10. No gold glitters like that which is our own. – Eliza Cook
#9 – 1. Gold Quotes
9. Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. – Virgil
8. All that glitters is not gold. – English Proverb
7. There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it. – Robert Kiyosaki
6. Gold is money. Everything else is credit. – J. P. Morgan
5. Vanity is only to be satisfied by gold in floods. – Honoré De Balzac
4. Not all that glitters is gold; not all that is sticky is tar. – Lithuanian Proverb
3. The castle gates will always open for gold-laden donkeys. – Russian Proverb
2. Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse. – Matthew Henry
1. Nothing gold can stay. – Robert Frost
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