Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Alan Watts

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

Alan Greenspan

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

Alan Greenspan

Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

Alan Greenspan

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

Alan Greenspan

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

China Mieville

Anything for gold and experience.

Byron Katie

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

Buddy Hackett

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

Carlos Santana

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.

William Shakespeare

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

William Shakespeare

Gold--what can it not do, and undo?

Eartha Kitt

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

Dean Cain

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

David Ricardo

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them.

Denis Leary

I've been nominated for Emmys and Golden Globes, but I've never won one and I probably never will.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

Chadwick Boseman

When it comes down to it, I'd rather have an action figure than a Golden Globe,

We have to go to the gold mines to dig. If we do not do that, we will not survive.

Alan Kay

Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

Charlaine Harris

Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things.

Edgar Lee Masters

Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth Which must be propped with gold.

Benjamin Franklin

Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold.

Benjamin Franklin

What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue.

Ben Bernanke

I don't fully understand movements in the gold price

Ben Bernanke

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either,

Desiderius Erasmus

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

Thurston Moore

We've never had a gold record. We make more money from being active, working, publishing, we have a great catalog. We never really had any hits.

Brigham Young

If we ever walk in streets paved with gold, we will have placed it there ourselves.

Brian Tracy

Invest the first hour of the day, the 'Golden Hour,' in yourself.

Juvenal

Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold.

When heights increase, you are making gold for owners of the property. The question is: How much of that gold will be shared with the public?

Twiggy

My golden rules for looking good are to moisturise to ridiculousness with a really rich moisturiser. And I always take my make-up off before going to bed.