quotations about gold
If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
The Canterbury Tales
Let us rejoice that we are poor,
And have no gold to keep:
We do not need to bar the door
Ere we can go to sleep.
ROBERT LEIGHTON
"Let Us Rejoice That We Are Poor"
Second-hand gold is as good as new.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
When every blessed thing you hold
Is made of silver, or of gold,
You long for simple pewter.
W.S. GILBERT
The Gondoliers
The dead spend no gold.
ROY THOMAS & CLARA NOTO
Red Sonja
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
JOHN MILTON
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.
CHARLES DICKENS
Nicholas Nickleby
Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.
FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD
Moral Maxims
Gold often commends the unworthy.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Poor is the man who can boast of nothing more than gold.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY
Proverbs
If a man could make gold, he would incur a double danger, first, from his own avarice, and secondly from the avarice of other men. The first would make him a slave, or the second a prisoner; for princes and potentates would think a goldmaker a very convenient member of their exchequer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon