One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.
The real alchemy consists in being able to turn gold back again into something else; and that's the secret that most of your friends have lost.
Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.
It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.
Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love
Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the 'hidden' confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights.
It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea.
Money-crimes have an abstract quality. History is laden with the victims of gold, but their remains are odourless.
You meet a friend - your face brightens. You have struck gold.
Everyone wants to know about the gold ring. Everyone knows already - it's ridiculous.
With gold a man can do anything. It even sends souls to paradise.
A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end.
A frog would leap from a throne of gold into a puddle.
Wisdom is better than silver and gold
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.
If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine. It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
For Pastrasche was their alpha and omega; their treasury and granary; their store of gold and wand of wealth; their bread-winner and minister; their only friend and comforter. . . . Pastrasche was their dog.
I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. you might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your winning way.
Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.
I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew.