Gold Quotes - Page 9

• Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold.

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Glorious

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 1, sc. 2, l. 11

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  The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.

  William H. Gass

  Book, Writing, Kids

  William H. Gass (2010). “A Temple of Texts”, p.37, Knopf Group E-Books

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• Tracking the shiny is so much easier than digging for gold!

  Laura Miller

  Digging, Easier, Tracking

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• Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.

  Alan Greenspan

  Money, Rights, Way

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.94, Penguin

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• Gold will be slave or master.

  Horace

  Slave, Masters

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.374, Delphi Classics

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• Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Commodity, Century

  Murray Newton Rothbard (1981). “What Has Government Done to Our Money?”, p.90, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• To prefer paper to gold is to prefer high risk to lower risk, instability to stability, inflation to steady long term values, a system of very low grade performance to a system of higher, though not perfect performance.

  William E. Rees

  Perfect, Long, Risk

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• The international monetary order is more precarious by far today than it was in 1929. Then, gold was international money, incorruptible, unmanageable, and unchangeable. Today, the U.S. dollar serves as the international medium of exchange, managed by Washington politicians and Federal Reserve officials, manipulated from day to day, and serving political goals and ambitions. This difference alone sounds the alarm to all perceptive observers.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Ambition, Order, Differences

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• The great merit of gold is precisely that it is scarce; that its quantity is limited by nature; that it is costly to discover, to mine, and to process; and that it cannot be created by political fiat or caprice.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Political, Merit, Process

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• Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.

  Bernard Baruch

  Believe, Years, Two

  Bernard Baruch (1944). “Park Bench Statesman”

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• As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

  Chilon of Sparta

  Men, Trying, Try Me

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• Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Summer, Daughter, School

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• O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.

  Lord Byron

  Money, Credit, Vapour

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• You can turn your goals into gold.

  Mark Victor Hansen

  Goal, Turns

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• With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.

  Christopher Columbus

  Men, Soul, Paradise

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• Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Iron, Steel

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• Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

  Joseph Addison

  Understanding, Doubt, Wonderful

  Joseph Addison (1868). “The Works of Joseph Addison: Including the Whole Contents of Bp. Hurd's Edition, with Letters and Other Pieces Not Found in Any Previous Collection; and Macaulay's Essay on His Life and Works”, p.563

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• To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.

  Jordyn Wieber

  Feelings, Necks, Persons

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• Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Fire, Brave

  "De Providentia", V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 517-18, 1922.

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• He who has gold makes and accomplishes whatever he wishes in the world and finally uses it to send souls to paradise.

  Christopher Columbus

  Soul, Wish, Use

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• I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.

  Amy Poehler

  Fall, Years, Earth

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.255, Pan Macmillan

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• It's not what the price of gold is that matters, but rather how much stuff it will buy.

  Michael Maloney

  Matter, Stuff

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• Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold.

  John Keats

  Realms

  1815 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer', l.1. (Published in The Examiner 1816.)

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• Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.

  Plutarch

  Cities, May, Empires

  Plutarch (2012). “Parallel Lives - Complete”, p.349, Simon and Schuster

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• To make an artwork good enough to enter people's hearts is like what ancient Chinese called 'making stone into gold.' It is alchemy.

  Li Shan

  Heart, People, Chinese

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