gold Quotes

“Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.”

“In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.”

“Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.”

“O gold! I still prefer thee unto paper which makes bank credit like a bank of vapour.”

“I live to hail that season by gifted one foretold, when men shall live by reason, and not alone by gold.”

“Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.”

“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”

“The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.”

“I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.”

“For anything worth having one must pay the price and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.”