592 Quotes About Gold

I found so many Jews and speculators here trading in cotton, and secessionists had become so open in refusing anything but gold, that I have felt myself bound to stop it. The gold can have but one use - the purchase of arms and ammunition... Of course, I have respected all permits by yourself or the Secretary of the Treasury, but in these new cases (swarms of Jews), I have stopped it.

Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.

Tomas, talk about a gold medal performance. That was a gold medal performance.

It's been such an unusual thing for us to have three gold, it's great.

I don't know what I'll do with my gold medal. Maybe I'll staple it to a wall. Is that a good thing to do with it?

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

We have done better owning gold than shares.

I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.