GOLD

Related Subjects: Alchemy, Avarice, Bribery, Mammon, Miser, Money, Rainbow, Riches

1. Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,—nothing.—AESOP, The Goose With the Golden Eggs
   

2. To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.—CARLYLE, The French Revolution
   

3. If golde ruste, what shal iren do?—CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales
   

4. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold!
   Bright and yellow, hard and cold.—THOMAS HOOD, Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg

5. The gold is thar, most anywhar, And they dig it out with an iron bar.—JESSE HUTCHINSON, JR., Ho for California
   

6. That for which all virtue now is sold,
   And almost every vice,—almighty gold.—BEN JONSON
   

7. It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.—WILLIAM MCFEE, Casuals of the Sea
   

8. They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even Men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.—SIR THOMAS MORE, Utopia
   

9. Whereas gold is the kindest of all hosts when it shines in the sky, it comes an evil guest into those that receive it in their hand.—SIMONIDES, Plutarch: Lives
   

10. Gold goes in at any gate except heaven's.—Proverb
    

11. Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron.—Proverb
    

12. Gold is no balm to a wounded spirit.—Proverb
    

13. How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object!—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
    

14. All that glisters is not gold.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice
    

15. There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
    Doing more murders in this loath­some world,
    Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
    I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet
    

16. Saint-seducing gold.—SHAKESPEARE, Romeo and Juliet