| Author |
Quotes |
| Thomas Gray | What female heart can gold despise? What cat's averse to fish? |
| Thomas Hood | Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold! |
| Thomas Hood | Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold. |
| Thomas Moore | Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her wand she bore. |
| Vergil | Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused. |
| Vergil | Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do? |
| William Jennings Bryan | You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns--you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold! |
| Yiddish Proverb | Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble. |
| Samuel Johnson | The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest, The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. |
| William Shakespeare | I see, the jewel best enamelled Will lose his beauty, yet the gold bides still That others touch, and often touching will Wear gold, and no man that hath a name, By falsehood and corruption doth it shame. |
| William Shakespeare | Thou that so stoutly hast resisted me, Give me thy gold, if thou hast any gold, For I have bought it with an hundred blows. |
| William Shakespeare | A quarrel ho! already! What's the matter? About a hoop of gold, a paltry ring That she did give me, whose posy was For all the world like cutler's poetry Upon a knife--'Love me, and leave me not.' |
| William Shakespeare | You have a choice between the natural stability of gold and the honesty and intelligence of the members of government. And with all due respect for those gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, vote for gold. |
| William Shakespeare | There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murther in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell,. |
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