Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Paracelsus

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

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.
Cecil Beaton

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
John Keats

My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'
Michael Phelps

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.
Betty Cuthbert

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.
Tim Cahill

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus

O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
Virgil

Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
Oksana Baiul

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.
Adelbert von Chamisso

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

Outside came in '60. The Edge in '61. All three made Gold, but the biggest seller was Inside.
Shelley Berman

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.
Sonny Bono

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
Samuel Johnson

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
William Moulton Marston

Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Euripides

Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.
Germanicus