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Hunger for gold is made greater as more gold is acquired.


Aurelius Clemens Prudentius

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The accursed hunger for gold.
UNKNOWN Love is the only gold.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON But what's worth more than gold?"

"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heav...
TERRY PRATCHETT gold, gold, gold, gold, gold, gold"
'Is there a chorus?'
"Gold, gold, gold, gold, gold".' ...
TERRY PRATCHETT If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.
GEORGE HERBERT Words are made of silver, but silence is made of gold.
PORTUGUESE PROVERB To live is shared by all, but not to be worthy of living.
AURELIUS CLEMENS PRUDENTIUS Nothing is higher than the love of truth.
AURELIUS CLEMENS PRUDENTIUS Bright light is injurious to those who see nothing.
AURELIUS CLEMENS PRUDENTIUS That is gold which is worth gold.
GEORGE HERBERT O accursed hunger of gold, to what dost thou not compel human hearts!
VIRGIL The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Gold that's put to use more gold begets.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.
BIG SEAN The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more g...
JEREMY TAYLOR Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.
ALAIN DE LILLE He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath mor...
JEREMY TAYLOR Gold is tested by fire, man by gold
CHINESE PROVERBS Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find all...
DAN GABLE Did you know that wherever you find fool's gold, real gold exists somewhere nearby? This also goes f...
SUZY KASSEM But probably this is helps to win, to win, to gold, more gold medals, and to win most my important m...
OLGA KORBUT But, in truth, it had not exactly been gold, or even the promise of gold, but more like the fantasy ...
TERRY PRATCHETT Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
PROVERB Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
LATIN PROVERB Gold's was the first bodybuilding gym made for bodybuilders.
JOE GOLD Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
UNKNOWN Do not hold everything as gold which shines like gold.
ALANUS DE INSULUS (ALAIN DE L'ISLE) Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold
ALAIN DE LILLE To measure prices by a currency that is called by the same names as gold, but that is really inferio...
LYSANDER SPOONER For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than...
MARTIN LUTHER Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
THOMAS HOOD This is the Olympic gold for them.
BRUCE WELLS Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but wh...
BIBLE Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-...
DAN GABLE All, as they say, that glitters is not gold.
JOHN DRYDEN A Friend is a treasure. More precious than Gold, For love shared is priceless And never grows old.
SOURCE UNKNOWN The father-mother family with two children isolated in a city flat is already insufficient.
KONRAD LORENZ In the course of evolution, it constantly happens that, independently of each other, two different f...
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Gold for Seb Cage Begins His Adventures
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TERRY TUMBLER Obviously with a higher gold price lower grade gold dumps become more viable (to recycle).
ILJA GRAULICH Awkwardness is such a gold mine for comedy.
PAUL RUDD Paul Ryan is the gold standard for conservatism.
SEAN DUFFY Gold is a commodity; over the long run, as we look back, it has not been a good investment. You can&...
MICHAEL LEE-CHIN The chains of love are never binding as when the links are made of gold.
ROYALL TYLER People are buying gold because it is now apparent that we are going to see massive inflation. Gold i...
LEONARD KAPLAN The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold ...
HELEN HUNT JACKSON Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
THOMAS HOOD Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
THOMAS HOOD Time is either gold or dirt. It is dirt to the lazy, and gold to the diligent.
JOHN B. BEJO Love is such a big hole, ha, common, life is a digger. Gold is money and LIFE IS GOLD. pEACE !!!
EPHDAN For us, that sediment is kind of like gold.
MAURICIA BACA When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Investment in gold in Malaysia is still very much in the infancy stage. People here buy gold for aes...
ERMIN SIOW Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchase...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time
ENGLISH PROVERB But every thyng which schyneth as the gold, Nis nat gold, as that I have herd it told.
GEOFFREY CHAUCER Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The coming of institutional investors in the gold market is certainly a boost to its development, bu...
CUI LIN One's life is like a gold mine. You don't always know who is really valuable and who is fool's gold.
SARA STRAIN Gold begets in brethren hate; Gold in families debate; Gold does friendship separate; Go...
ABRAHAM COWLEY A good woman is worth, if she were sold, the fairest crown that's made of purest gold
JOHN WODROEPHE There is gold for you. Sell me your good report.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you c...
MICHAEL LEE-CHIN I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
CAMERON VAN DER BURGH Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.
S.E. HINTON With more than two million operators out there, surface gold is fast running out.
JACK MUREHWA This is a gold mine.
BEN CRUZ Earth is dearer than gold
ESTONIAN PROVERB With a few exceptions, it starts with gold. Americans love winning, and gold is the ultimate victory...
BOB DORFMAN Men have a touchstone whereby to try gold, but gold is the touchstone whereby to try men.
THOMAS FULLER The proof of gold is fire, the proof of woman, gold; the proof of man, a woman.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Pure heart more precious than pure gold
RACHMAD ROFIK They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybod...
MICHAEL JOHNSON Gold time better than gold rolex
KARIM FDHILA More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the h...
BIBLE As the yellow gold is tried in the fire, so is sincerity tested in adversity.
OLD SONG Even Warren Buffett is buying gold because he sees the dollar as weak.
JAMES TURK At the end of the rainbow waited the pot of gold. But rainbows were made of faint and fragile gossam...
V.C. ANDREWS Blood is just red fluid for humans, but a red gold for demons.
TARIQAZIZ MULLA Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...
LEO TOLSTOY Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not ...
LEO TOLSTOY The proof of gold is fire...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Gold is the corpse of value...
NEAL STEPHENSON Temperance is a bridle of gold.
BURTON All is not gold that glisters.
GEORGE HERBERT All that glisters is not gold.
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Not all that glitters is gold.
JHEB KRUEGER (JEFF) All is not gold that glisteneth
THOMAS MIDDLETON All that glitters is not gold.
PROVERB All that glisters is not gold,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All that glisters is not gold.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history...
OSCAR WILDE No gold-digging for me... I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
MAE WEST He (Hunt) is good as gold as far as I know, hopefully he will slot back in.
CAMERON LING He who finds gold is lucky, but he who is accorded with a stranger's honesty is far more blessed.
JECON B. NADELA The momentum higher in gold continues. The consensus in the market is that gold will trade to betwee...
FREDERIC PANIZZUTTI They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating ever...
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MARCUS AURELIUS You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.
MARCUS AURELIUS How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only ...
MARCUS AURELIUS When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungra...
MARCUS AURELIUS Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortu...
MARCUS AURELIUS Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt alway...
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