Gold Quotes and Sayings



Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon Hill

Everything that gristles is not gold.
William Shakespeare

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race.
Gerald M. Loeb

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gold does not rust on the ground, and rocks don’t get soaked in the rain.
Turkish Proverb

One secures the gold of the spirit when he finds himself.
Claude M. Bristol

When we have gold we are in fear, when we have none we are in danger.
English Proverb

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time.
Anonymous

As fewer and fewer people have confidence in paper as a store of value, the price of gold will continue to rise.
Jerome F. Smith

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold…
Bob Marley

Gold is forever. It is beautiful, useful, and never wears out. Small wonder that gold has been prized over all else, in all ages, as a store of value that will survive the travails of life and the ravages of time.
James Blakely

When paper money systems begin to crack at the seams, the run to gold could be explosive.
Harry Browne

The way I see it, gold is headed over $1000 an ounce, probably much higher. At anywhere near current prices, it’s the lowest risk, highest potential investment I can think of.
Doug Casey

Gold would have value if for no other reason than that it enables a citizen to fashion his financial escape from the state.
William F. Rickenbacker

No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.
Hans F. Sennholz

The world is glittering with gold, and yellow streamers of sunlight wind through the tree boughs like God was throwing a party!
Christine Anderson

Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold.
Aristotle

Gold is as steady as a rock, a standardbearer by which all currencies can be accurately measured.
Mark Skousen

If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.
Greek proverb

If ever there was an area in which to do the exact opposite of that which government and the media urge you to do, that area is the purchasing of gold.
Robert Ringer

For more than two thousand years gold’s natural qualities made it man’s universal medium of exchange. In contrast to political money, gold is honest money that survived the ages and will live on long after the political fiats of today have gone the way of all paper.
Hans F. Sennhol

Nothing Gold Can Stay.
Robert Frost

The fate of the nation and the fate of the currency are one and the same.
Dr. Franz Pick

Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron.
Thomas Fuller

Gold was not selected arbitrarily by governments to be the monetary standard. Gold had developed for many centuries on the free market as the best money; as the commodity providing the most stable and desirable monetary medium.
Murray N. Rothbard

Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.
George Herbert

Gold bears the confidence of the world’s millions, who value it far above the promises of politicians, far above the unbacked paper issued by governments as money substitutes. It has been that way through all recorded history. There is no reason to believe it will lose the confidence of people in the future.
Oakley R. Bramble

In a country whose currency is not convertible into gold, inflation leads to its continuous devaluation in terms of foreign currencies.
Michael A. Heilperin

Gold is not going to fade away and just become another useful metal.
Donald Hoppe

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