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

So I wanted to show what I did with the money. So I got red silk shirts, beautiful hats, wonderful saddles, a great horse, and two gold teeth. So that was the way I did it.
Eli Wallach

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.
Gary Gygax

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.
Angela Ruggiero

The 200 years when Britain and the US were the top two economies were an aberration and that will change. The decline of empires has happened much faster than folks think. I believe that gold will be a far better bet in 20 years than the dollar.
Tom Winnifrith

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
Jesse Owens

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
Georg Trakl

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
John Moody

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

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
Carlos Santana

The feeling of accomplishment welled up inside of me, three Olympic gold medals. I knew that was something nobody could ever take away from me, ever.
Wilma Rudolph

The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
John Jakes

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.
Mitch Gaylord

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