Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know

Three words, Ignis aurum probat. “Fire tests gold.” The rest of the phrase: “. . . and adversity tests the brave.

It’s nice to be recognized, but it’s not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it’s just not something… I don’t feel that great about it.

Winning an Olympic quota place itself was a very hard job. Add to that a gold medal as well…. I mean it was a fantastic feeling. All the credit goes to my coach, and ultimately, this was the first Olympic quota place for India, so I’m really proud.

Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.

Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

Worldly institutions fail because they require power and gold to operate. Power and gold attract wicked and greedy people. Wicked and greedy people are corrupters and betrayers. Therefore, worldly institutions become corrupt and betrayed.

Ill buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or Ill find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own

Gold looks good on my skin, and gold looks good on black people, I think

Gold, or at least the prospect of it, saved him, then killed him.

Love must kiss that mortal’s eyesWho hopes to see fair Arcady.No gold can buy you entrance there;But beggared Love may go all bare-No wisdom won with weariness;But Love goes in with Folly’s dress-No fame that wit could ever win;But only Love may lead Love in.

Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger column and my goodwill purer gold than the columns and gold of rich schools.

Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we’re gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.

Nature’s first green is gold.

Nothing gold can stay.

Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.

The Moon was but a Chin of Gold A Night or two ago — And now she turns Her perfect Face Upon the World below —

You never win the silver, you only lose the gold.

He’s a gift from heaven, he is truly a gift from heaven. Whatever he touches turns to gold.

LAW: Long-term price stability is possible only when the money supply is based upon the gold (or silver) supply without government interference.

When the dollar was separated entirely from gold in 1971, it ceased being the official IMF world currency and finally had to compete with other currencies… From that point forward, its value increasingly became discounted.

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

One who possesses Gold should be aware of its precious place in this world.

In my earnest thoughts, I must remain to collect as much Gold as possible from this great land.

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty.

I’ve spent, I think, close to the last decade effortlessly and magically converting your tin cans into pure gold.

I’ll paint you moments of gold, I’ll spin you Valentine evenings…

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

Unlike the gold which needed nothing, and must be worshipped in close-locked solitude—which was hidden away from the daylight, was deaf to the song of birds, and started to no human tones—Eppie was a creature of endless claims and ever-growing desires, seeking and loving sunshine, and living sounds, and living movements; making trial of everything, with trust in new joy, and stirring the human kindness in all eyes that looked on her.

For gold in phisike is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special.

Your life is worth much more than gold

Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. . . . A new Hedonism — that is what our century wants. You might be its visible symbol

Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair. There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as all youth’s passionate purity. One felt that he had kept himself unspotted from the world. No wonder Basil Hallward worshipped him.

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

Why do you sell your wine, merchant?
What can they give you in exchange for your wine? Money? … And what can money give you? Power? … Aren’t you the owner of the world when you are holding a drink? Is anyone richer than you, who have gold in your cup, Rubies, Pearls, Dreams, and Love? Don’t you feel the blood burning in your veins when the cup kisses your lips.

More gold had been mined from the mind of men than the earth it self.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

When I was little, I used to adore gold. It was something special.

You develop millionaires the way you mine gold. You expect to move tons of dirt to find an ounce of gold, but you don’t go into the mine looking for the dirt-you go in looking for the gold

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God. If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Back in the day, I would wear up to 45 pounds of gold. It would take me four hours to get dressed!

Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed with gold or silver beside, it attracts with tenfold power.

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it’s a feather bed.

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing

Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.

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

You can spin your struggles into gold, you just got to believe in yourself.