Gold Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Gold.
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“L'or est une chimère.”
“That is gold which is worth gold.”
“Every honest miller has a golden thumb.”
“And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee.”
“Money is gold, and nothing else.”
“Not Philip, but Philip's gold, took the cities of Greece.”
“Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold.”
“Quid non mortalia pectora cogis,
Auri sacra fames?”
“What female heart can gold despise?
What cat's averse to fish?”
“gold”
“For gold in phisik is a cordial;
Therefore he lovede gold in special.”
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“What nature wants, commodious gold bestows;
'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.”
“A thirst for gold,
The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm
The meanest hearts.”
“Aurea nunc vere sunt specula; plurimus auro
Venit honos; auro conciliatur amor.”
“Aurum per medios ire satellites
Et perrumpere amat saxa potentius
Ictu fulmineo.”
“Imaro exploded. “Why do men fight like starving lions over yellow metal and let valuable cattle go?””
“L'or donne aux plus laids certain charme pour plaire,
Et quo sans lui le reste est une triste affaire.”
“You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns—you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold!”
“Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
Gold does civil wars create.”