Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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.
David Ricardo

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Christopher Columbus

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Antoine Rivarol

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable

Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.
David Ricardo

Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.
Joe Gold

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
Democritus

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.
Jeremy Taylor

Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
Eric Heiden

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.
Charles Perrault

Here were these college kids beating the Soviets and going on to the Olympic Gold Medal. To me, that's the greatest upset of all time in any sport that I can think of.
Jim McKay

Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.
Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.
Jonathan Carroll

I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
Ellis Peters

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.
Scott Hamilton

I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.
Alison Moyet

I hate gold. I'm sort of a sterling-silver guy.
Michael Vartan

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
Hedy Lamarr

I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me.
Picabo Street