Gold Quotes

Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity.

In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life.

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

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

A good heart 'is worth gold.

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