Mark Twain Quotes, Money Quotes, Gold Quotes

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

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What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow ... As 'bandwagon' investors join any party, they create their own truth - for a while.

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To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

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A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

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These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Joy Quotes , Gold Quotes

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

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How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

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I could not possibly count the gold-digging ruses of women, Not if I had ten mouths, not if I had ten tongues.

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A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

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To compete at the Olympic Games, I dreamed of any medal, but frankly speaking, I wanted a gold one.

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I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.

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All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

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But not gold in commercial quantities, Just enough gold to make the engagement rings And marriage rings of those who owned the farm. What gold more innocent could one have asked for?

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Gold Quotes , Engagement Quotes

Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Gold Quotes , Jade Quotes

Along the avenue of cypresses, All in their scarlet cloaks and surplices Of linen, go the chanting choristers, The priests in gold and black, the villagers. . . .

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The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold

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In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.

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Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold

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Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

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All that glitters is not gold.

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