Gold Quotes - Page 36

• Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Trifling, Values

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Teeth, Moral, Truth Is

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.51, Prestwick House Inc

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• There is no honest man! not one, that can resist the attraction of gold!

  Aristophanes

  Men, Honest, Attraction

  Aristophanes (2013). “The Eleven Comedies - Complete”, p.489, Simon and Schuster

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• It is no wrong or injustice that one has many bags of the finest myrrh and garments embroidered with gold, while another has not those things, which are not necessary for our maintenance; he who has them has not thereby obtained control over anything that could be an essential addition to his nature, but has only obtained something illusory or deceptive. ...This is the rule at all times and in all places; no notice should be taken of exceptional cases, as we have explained.

  Maimonides

  Taken, Essentials, Bags

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.12, 1190.

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• The modern sensibility attempts to drain the contents of experience; these Greek poets strive to state the fact so poignantly that it becomes an ever-flowing spring as Sappho says, "More real than real, more gold than gold.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Spring, Real, Greek

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.59, New Directions Publishing

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• Do you know out of what the German Empire arose? Out of dreams, songs, fantasies and black-red-gold ribbons? Bismarck merely shook the tree that fantasies had planted.

  Theodor Herzl

  Dream, Song, Tree

  Quoted in Carl E Schorske Fin-de-Sie'cle Vienna (1961), p.165.

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• The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Church, Silver, Poor

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• Gold schenkt die Eitelkeit, der rauhe Stolz, Die Freundschaft und die Liebe schenken Blumen. Gold is the gift of vanityand pride, Friendship and love offer flowers.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Flower, Pride, Love And Friendship

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• Some of the gold possessed by the Romans is doubtless mixed with what we now possess; and some small part of it will be handed down as long as the human race exists.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Race, Long, Humans

  William Stanley Jevons (1931). “The Theory of Political Economy”

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• In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Growth, Sound, Principles

  "The Growth of the Law". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1924.

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• I am humbled by the nomination. I got to work with a cast and writers made up of geniuses. The good news is I can finally realize my life long dream and buy my wife a solid gold speed boat.

  Will Arnett

  Dream, Long, Wife

  "Stars React To Emmy Nominations". www.accessonline.com. July 06, 2006.

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• The descendants of those who crucified Christ... have taken ownership of the riches of the world, a minority has taken ownership of the gold of the world, the silver, the minerals, water, the good lands, petrol, well, the riches, and they have concentrated the riches in a small number of hands.

  Hugo Chavez

  Taken, Small Numbers, Hands

  Hugo Chavez's Christmas speech at a rehabilitation center, December 24, 2005.

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• The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.

  Benjamin Graham

  Past, Commodity, Intrinsic Value

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham.Part III, Chapter X, The Status of Gold and Silver, p. 127, 1937.

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• Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.

  Benjamin Graham

  White, Use, Argument

  "World Commodities and World Currencies". Book by Benjamin Graham. Chapter IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100, 1944.

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• Makes no sense to me,' said Huntsekker. 'You don't know who is at your door, but you know the thoughts of a man twenty miles away.' 'Life is a mystery,' said Powdermill, with a gold-toothed grin. 'It is that, right enough,' agreed Huntsekker.

  David Gemmell

  Men, Doors, Twenties

  "Stormrider". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 8, 2002.

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• But men don't come in just two groups, one of gold and the other of lead. They are a mix of both." "And what about women?" "Pure gold, my girl," Rayvan answered with a chuckle.

  David Gemmell

  Girl, Men, Two

  "The King Beyond the Gate". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 22, 1985.

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• Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

  Stephen Crane

  Lying, Men, Eagles

  Stephen Crane (2005). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.248, Penguin

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• Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up.

  Noel Gallagher

  Sunshine, Rising Up, Silver

  "Song: "Bag it Up" ("Dig Out Your Soul")". 2008.

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• There comes, even to kings, the time of great weariness. Then the gold of the throne is brass, the silk of the palace becomes drab. The gems in the diadem and upon the fingers of the women sparkle drearily like the ice of white seas; the speech of men is as the empty rattle of a jester's bell and the feel comes of things unreal; even the sun is copper in the sky and the breath of the green ocean is no longer fresh.

  Robert E. Howard

  Kings, Ocean, Men

  Robert E. Howard (2006). “Kull: Exile of Atlantis”, p.83, Del Rey

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• Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.

  Robert E. Howard

  Dog, Men, Race

  Robert E Howard “Conan the Barbarian”, Lulu.com

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• They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

  Ted Nugent

  Art, Real, Sunday

  "Vegans, Keep Out: It's Hunting Season". Interview with Danny Hakim, The New York Times, September 27, 2005.

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• The Spanish voyager, as his caravel ploughed the adjacent seas, might give full scope to his imagination, and dream that beyond the long, low margin of forest which bounded his horizon lay hid a rich harvest for some future conqueror; perhaps a second Mexico with its royal palace and sacred pyramids, or another Cuzco with its temple of the Sun, encircled with a frieze of gold. Haunted by such visions, the ocean chivalry of Spain could not long stand idle.

  Francis Parkman

  Dream, Ocean, Sea

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.27, Library of America

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• America was still a land of wonder. The ancient spell still hung unbroken over the wild, vast world of mystery beyond the sea,-a land of romance, adventure, and gold.

  Francis Parkman

  Adventure, Sea, Land

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.43, Library of America

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• When America was first made known to Europe, the part assumed by France on the borders of that new world was peculiar, and is little recognized. While the Spaniard roamed sea and land, burning for achievement, red-hot with bigotry and avarice, and while England, with soberer steps and a less dazzling result, followed in the path of discovery and gold-hunting, it was from France that those barbarous shores first learned to serve the ends of peaceful commercial industry.

  Francis Parkman

  Hunting, Discovery, Europe

  Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.145, Library of America

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• I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Thinking, Agreement, United States

  "Before she ran off, Condi threw a tantrum in Ottawa". www.dailykos.com. October 26, 2005.

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