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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we've forgotten there’s any other way.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, This Side of Paradise
All that glitters is not gold.
- Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?...
- This yellow slave
- Will knit and break religions, bless th’ accursed,
- Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves,
- And give them title, knee and approbation
- With senators on the bench.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Timon of Athens
The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.
CONFUCIUS, The Wisdom of Confucius
He who wakes up early finds gold.
- O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper,
- Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour.
Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.
CHARLES DICKENS, Nicholas Nickleby
Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.
AURELIUS CLEMENS PRUDENTIUS, Hamartigenia
- When every blessed thing you hold
- Is made of silver, or of gold,
- You long for simple pewter.
W.S. GILBERT, The Gondoliers
- Gold and iron are good
- To buy iron and gold.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Politics
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
JOHN MILTON, On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
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