Gold Quotes
Most popular gold quotes
Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
![Gold will buy the highest honors; and gold will purchase love. - Ovid quote.](/img/q/05/8105A-gold-will-buy-the-highest-honors-gold-will-purchase-love-ovid.png)
Gold will buy the highest honors; and gold will purchase love.
![I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk. - Charlie Munger quote.](/img/q/94/11994A-i-dont-have-the-slightest-interest-gold-i-like-understanding-charlie-munger.png)
I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.
![When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotent. - Publilius Syrus quote.](/img/q/14/27714A-when-gold-argues-the-cause-eloquence-is-impotent-publilius-syrus.png)
When Gold argues the cause, eloquence is impotent.
![Gold, n. A yellow metal greatly prized for its convenience in the various kinds of robbery known as trade. - Ambrose Bierce quote.](/img/q/91/31891A-gold-n-a-yellow-metal-greatly-prized-its-convenience-various-ambrose-bierce.png)
Gold, n. A yellow metal greatly prized for its convenience in the various kinds of robbery known as trade.
![Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes
And heedless hearts, is lawful prize;
Nor all, that glisters, is gold. - Thomas Gray quote.](/img/q/92/31892A-not-all-that-tempts-your-wandring-eyes-heedless-hearts-is-thomas-gray.png)
Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all, that glisters, is gold.
![That for which all virtue now is sold.
And almost every vice—almighty gold. - Ben Jonson quote.](/img/q/93/31893A-that-for-which-all-virtue-now-is-sold-almost-every-ben-jonson.png)
That for which all virtue now is sold. And almost every vice—almighty gold.
![It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold. - William McFee quote.](/img/q/94/31894A-it-is-extraordinary-how-many-emotional-storms-one-may-weather-william-mcfee.png)
It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.
![Gold is the key, whatever else we try;
And that sweet metal aids the conqueror
In every case, in love as well as war. - Molière quote.](/img/q/95/31895A-gold-is-the-key-whatever-else-we-try-that-sweet-moliere.png)
Gold is the key, whatever else we try; And that sweet metal aids the conqueror In every case, in love as well as war.
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and silken cords pinch.
If a piece of worthless stone can bruise a cup of gold, its worth is not increased, nor that of the gold diminished.
![Gold defiles with frequent touch;
There's nothing fouls the hand so much. - Jonathan Swift quote.](/img/q/01/31901A-gold-defiles-with-frequent-touch-theres-nothing-fouls-hand-so-jonathan-swift.png)
Gold defiles with frequent touch; There's nothing fouls the hand so much.
![Love is the only gold. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson quote.](/img/q/02/31902A-love-is-the-only-gold-alfred-lord-tennyson.png)
Love is the only gold.
![Accursed greed for gold,
To what dost thou not drive the heart of man. - Virgil quote.](/img/q/03/31903A-accursed-greed-for-gold-to-what-dost-thou-not-drive-virgil.png)
Accursed greed for gold, To what dost thou not drive the heart of man.