Gold Quotes

Gold is the fool’s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

Feltham.

The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless; the last corruption of degenerate man.

Johnson.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

Fuller.

Gold, like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts.

Rivarol.

It is observed of gold, in an old epigram, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

Johnson.

To purchase heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can live be bought with gold? Are friendship’s pleasures to be sold? No all that’s worth a wish a thought, fair virtue gives unbribed, un bought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, let nobler views engage thy mind.

Johnson.

There is no place so high that an ass laden with gold cannot reach it.

Rojas.

Midas longed for gold. He got it, so that whatever he touched became gold, and he, with his long ears, was little the better for it.

Carlyle.

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other is the camp, gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both, may indeed attain the highest station, but he must know something more to keep it.

Colton.

Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby, or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, thought she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.

Shakespeare.

A mask of gold hides all deformities.

Dekker.

How quickly nature falls to revolt when gold becomes her object.

Shakespeare.

O cursed lust of gold? When, for thy sake, the fool throws up his interest in both words, first starved in this, then damned in that to come?

Blair.

How few, like Daniel, have God and gold together.

Bp. Villiers.

Gold! In all ages the curse of mankind! To gain thee, men yield honor, affection and lasting renown, and for thee barter the crown of eternity.

P.Benjamin.

A vain man’s motto is” “Win gold and wear it”; a generous, “Win gold and share it”; a miser’s “Win gold and hoard it”; a profligates’s, “Win gold and spend it”; a broker’s, “Win gold and lend it”; a gambler’s “Win gold and lose it; a wise man’s, “ Win gold and use it.”

They who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this, have at least one thin to plead in defence of their idolatry the power of their idol. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.

Colton.

Mammon has enriched his thousands and has damned his ten thousands.

South.

As the thousands tries gold, so gold tries man.

Chilo.

Gold begets in brethren hate;

Gold in families debate;

Golds does friendship separate;

Gold does civil wars create.

Abraham Cowley, Anacreontics : Gold,

Every door is barred with gold, and opens but to golden keys.

Tennyson, Locksley Hall.

O love of gold! Thou meanest of amour!

Edward Young, night thoughts.

I shall not help crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. I shall not aid in pressing down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns.