Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Russell Lowell

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

James Grant

Nothing beats a little cash in a bear market, of course, and the oldest form of cash is gold.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Golden is a surface colour.

John Clare

Throw not my words away, as many do;They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

Mahatma Gandhi

Labour is priceless, not gold.

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Plato

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

Plato

By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

Naomi Wolf

Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard.

All that glitters is sold as gold.

Oliver Sacks

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

This is a golden opportunity for the United States.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

Jussi Jokinen

You win the bronze, you win the gold, you lose the silver. Every hockey player wants to go out with a win.

Peter Green

You've got the Dow transports crushed, gold is up, the insurers are down and the high techs are really tanking.

The gold standard, if you will, is being able to have a label on the product that says it's sterile.

The gold prices have people snooping around where they haven't snooped for a while. No question -- there's an increase and interest in exploration.

The gold price has taken quite a hit and it does not look like it wants to post any major recovery.

The gold price at these levels still helps the rand immensely. It's still pretty good going for the rand.

The gold market has been looking for more uncertainty and we are seeing it this morning.

The Golden Slipper is a pressure race and this horse doesn't feel pressure.

The Golden Rule is of no use to you whatever unless you realize it is your move

The gold ball, that was the big thing tonight.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Thinkers are as scarce as gold.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.

The last two weeks, we really worked on getting mentally ready to go out and wrestle. He had one thing in mind, and that was winning a gold medal.

Kyle Shewfelt

The main objective for us was to win gold for the team and this was accomplished on Thursday. Everything else is an extra.

Nouriel Roubini

Gold has no increasing value. And if you're really worried about, say, inflation rising, I would buy Spam. You know, you can eat Spam. You cannot eat gold.

Nouriel Roubini

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.

Emile M. Cioran

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.