Gold Quotes - Page 35

• To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Money, Showers

  Thomas Carlyle (2007). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.84, Modern Library

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• Earth walks on Earth, Glittering in gold; Earth goes to Earth, Sooner than it wold; Earth builds on Earth, Palaces and towers; Earth says to Earth, Soon, all shall be ours.

  Walter Scott

  Towers, Earth, Palaces

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• Man's books are but man's alphabet,
  Beyond and on his lessons lie -
  The lessons of the violet,
  The large gold letters of the sky;
  The love of beauty, blossomed soil,
  The large content, the tranquil toil:
  The toil that nature ever taught,
  The patient toil, the constant stir,
  The toil of seas where shores are wrought,
  The toil of Christ, the carpenter;
  The toil of God incessantly
  By palm-set land or frozen sea.

  Joaquin Miller

  Lying, Book, Men

  "The Larger College". "In Classic Shades, and Other Poems". Book by Joaquin Miller, 1890.

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• I'm growing fonder of my staff; I'm growing dimmer in the eyes; I'm growing fainter in my laugh; I'm growing deeper in my sighs; I'm growing careless of my dress; I'm growing frugal of my gold; I'm growing wise; I'm growing yes, I'm growing old!

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Wise, Eye, Laughing

  John Godfrey Saxe (1860). “The Money-king: And Other Poems”, p.34

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• 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.

  Henry Cuyler Bunner

  Kissing, Winning, Dresses

  Henry Cuyler Bunner (1896). “The Poems of H. C. Bunner ...”

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• Among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red firetruck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city.

  William Carlos Williams

  Moving, Rain, Dark

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.174, New Directions Publishing

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• We have lost the old love of work, of work which kept itself company, which was fair weather and music in the heart, which found its reward in the doing, craving neither the flattery of vulgar eyes nor the gold of vulgar men.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Eye, Heart, Men

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• It's amazing how fast gold works.

  Terry Pratchett

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• The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Flower, Feet, Walks

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• Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

  John Clare

  Values

  John Clare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Clare (Illustrated)”, p.336, Delphi Classics

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• Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.

  Georges Bernanos

  Quality, Crime, Victim

  "A Diary of My Times". Book by Georges Bernanos, 1938.

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• Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints.

  Eric Hoffer

  Writing, Mean, Density

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

  Plato

  Doe, Earth, Virtue

  Leges, 728a (translated byTrevor J Saunders,1970).

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• A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Fire, Devil

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.19

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• I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?

  Sara Teasdale

  Dark, Moon, Light

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Break windows, smoke cigars, and stay up late. Tell 'em to do that, they'll find a little pot of gold.

  Tom Waits

  Advice, Musician, Ems

  Musician magazine, October 1987.

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• Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.

  Plutarch

  Plato, Rivers, Jupiter

  Plutarch, John Dryden (1859). “Plutarch's lives”, p.59

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• May he be cursed on earth who gives his trust to virtue, that bankrupt crone who takes our life's pure gold and gives but bad receipts for payment in the lower world. Ah, passers-by that stroll, travelers that come and go, all that I had, I placed on virtue, and lost the game!

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Games, Giving, World

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to be decently interred; His clothes fell to the soldiers; His mother He left to the care of John; but what should He leave to His poor disciples that had left all for Him? Silver and gold He had none; but He left them that which was infinitely better, His peace.

  Matthew Henry

  Mother, Peace, Father

  Matthew Henry (2016). “Bible commentary - Gospel of John”, p.850, Bible Study Books

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• But al be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Als, Canterbury Tales

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The General Prologue' l. 293

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• If gold ruste, what shall iren do?

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Ifs

  'The Canterbury Tales' 'The General Prologue' l. 500

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• But all thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Herds, All Things

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1867). “The Canterbury Tales: From the Text and with the Notes and Glossary of Thomas Tyrwhitt : Condensed and Arranged Under the Text”, p.485

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• A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold.

  Philip Massinger

  Sparkle, Horns, Diamond

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• Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.

  Thomas Hobbes

  May, Matter, Firsts

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.222, Broadview Press

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• If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Speak English, Facts, Esperanto

  "The Gold Standard". Excerpt from chapter 17 of "Human Action, The Scholar's Edition", book by Ludwig von Mises, mises.org. 1949.

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