Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.
Alain de Lille

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
Andreas Capellanus

Even when I was very depressed, I could hold on to something. It seems that I have always had that streak of gold that I could hold on to.
Michael Schenker

Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.
Sextus Propertius

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.
Isabella Bird

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
Mark Twain

Everything I touch turns to gold.
Pete Waterman

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.
Gwendolyn Brooks

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
Scott Cook

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Martha Graham

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
Chief Joseph

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
John Burroughs

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.
George Santayana

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
Martin Luther

Frank Marth also played many characters with us, and like George Petrie, he was worth his weight in gold.
Audrey Meadows

Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
Allan Sloan

Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
Edmund Spenser

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration.
David Ricardo