Famous Quotes about Gold – 50+ Gold Quotes and Sayings

Famous Quotes About Gold

  • “Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.” —Martha Graham
  • “It’s health that is real wealth, not pieces of gold and silver.” —Mahatma Gandhi
  • “Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.” —Mark Twain
  • “Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.” —Samuel Johnson
  • “Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.” —Elizabeth I
  • “Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver and gold.” —Bob Marley
  • “The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.” —Kahlil Gibran
  • “The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.” —Gerald M. Loeb
  • “Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination and a hard to find alloy called guts.” —Dan Gable
  • “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” —Leo Tolstoy
  • “Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.” —Christopher Columbus
  • “All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” —J. R. Tolkien
  • “Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.” —Robert Kiyosaki
  • “But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose, I am proceeding solely in quest of them.” —Christopher Columbus

Gold Quotes and Sayings

  • “Gold makes the ugly beautiful.” —Molière
  • “Nothing gold can stay.” —Robert Frost
  • “Gold often commends the unworthy.” —Edward Counsel
  • “Gold makes monsters of men.” —Erin Bowman
  • “Gold will be slave or master.” —Horace
  • “True gold fears no fire.” —Chinese Proverb
  • “Gold gathers more than a shovel.” —Edward Counsel
  • “All that glitters is not gold.” —English Proverb
  • “Where gold speaks every tongue is silent.” —Proverb
  • “Second-hand gold is as good as new.” —Ken Alstad
  • “A mask of gold hides all deformities.” —Thomas Dekker
  • “That is gold which is worth gold.” —George Herbert
  • “If gold rusts, what then can iron do? —Geoffrey Chaucer
  • “Gold is money. Everything else is credit.” —J. P. Morgan
  • “No gold glitters like that which is our own.” —Eliza Cook
  • “We must learn who is gold, and who is gold plated.” —Unknown
  • “Gold may shine; but it has no true light.” —Kristian Goldmund Aumann
  • “Gold’s father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.” —Yiddish Proverb
  • “Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.” —Ron Paul
  • “Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.” —Alain de Lille
  • “Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.” —Austin O’Malley
  • “There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it.” —Robert Kiyosaki
  • “Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.” —Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
  • “Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.” —Matthew Henry
  • “Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.” —Antoine Rivarol
  • “Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.” —George Herbert
  • “As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.” —English Proverb
  • “Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don’t get soaked in the rain.” —Turkish Proverb
  • “To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.” —Samuel Johnson
  • “It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.” —Thomas Fuller
  • “Gold authenticity can only be tested under maximum fire. The same holds true with regard to manhood.” —Moutasem Algharati
  • “More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.” —Napoleon Hill
  • “The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.” —Gerald M. Loeb
  • “All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.” —Plato
  • “Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Gold does civil wars create.” —Abraham Cowley
  • “The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver! —Mehmet Murat ildan
  • “Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.” —Charles Caleb Colton
  • “Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.” —Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere
  • “Pure gold does not rust. Only gold alloys do so. You may have golden dreams. But if you go in the company of toxic people, your become “a gold alloy” and what that means is that you can rust at any time.” —Israelmore Ayivor
  • “If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That’s the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.” —Conn Iggulden