| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Cowley | Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create. |
| Alexander Pope | What nature wants, commodious gold bestows, 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. |
| Antoine Rivarol | Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. |
| Bernard M Baruch | 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. |
| Alexander Pope | What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. |
| Carter G Woodson | Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains. |
| George Herbert | That is gold which is worth gold. |
| Horace | Gold will be slave or master. |
| Horatius Flaccus | Stronger than thunder's winged force All-powerful gold can speed its course; Through watchful guards its passage make, And loves through solid walls to break. |
| Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere | Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair. |
| Joseph French Johnson | 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. |
| Marjorie Holmes | The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself. |
| Ovidius Naso | Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured. |
| Plutarch | Not Philip, but Phillip's gold, took the cities of Greece. |
| R Buckminster Fuller | Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead. |
| Romanian Proverb | An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. |
| Samuel Butler | Though wisdom cannot be gotten with gold, still less can it be gotten without it. |
| Swiss Proverb | Speech is silver; silence is golden. |
| Thomas Dekker | A mask of gold hides all deformities. |
| Thomas Fuller | It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. |
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