GOLD QUOTES III

quotations about gold

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

GEOFFREY CHAUCER

The Canterbury Tales

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Let us rejoice that we are poor,
And have no gold to keep:
We do not need to bar the door
Ere we can go to sleep.

ROBERT LEIGHTON

"Let Us Rejoice That We Are Poor"


Second-hand gold is as good as new.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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When every blessed thing you hold
Is made of silver, or of gold,
You long for simple pewter.

W.S. GILBERT

The Gondoliers

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Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

JOHN MILTON

On the Morning of Christ's Nativity

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The dead spend no gold.

ROY THOMAS & CLARA NOTO

Red Sonja

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Gold often commends the unworthy.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

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Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

CHARLES DICKENS

Nicholas Nickleby

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Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

FRANÇOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD

Moral Maxims

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Poor is the man who can boast of nothing more than gold.

WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY

Proverbs

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If a man could make gold, he would incur a double danger, first, from his own avarice, and secondly from the avarice of other men. The first would make him a slave, or the second a prisoner; for princes and potentates would think a goldmaker a very convenient member of their exchequer.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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