Mark Twain Quotes About Gold

• Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

  Mark Twain

  Sky, People, Gold

• Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

  Mark Twain

  Educational, Inspiration, Iron

  Mark Twain (2016). “What Is Man? And Other Essays”, p.6, Xist Publishing

• When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Gold, Good Times

• Genius, like gold and precious stones,
  is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

  Mark Twain

  Precious Stones, Gold, Genius

  Mark Twain, “Genius”

• What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

  Mark Twain

  Father, Son, Men

  Mark Twain (1992). “Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches & Essays: 1852-1890”

• Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Ignorant, Gold

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.583, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• The real yellow peril: Gold.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Yellow, Gold

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.284, Courier Corporation

• I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

  Mark Twain

  Money, Gold, Twenties

  Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.117, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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