Alan Watts Quotes, Gold Quotes, Use Quotes

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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Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets.

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You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value?

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Gold will be slave or master.

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You are an alchemist; make gold of that.

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I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

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The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

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When it's raining gold, reach for a bucket, not a thimble.

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Judges and senates have been bought for gold; Esteem and love were never to be sold.

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Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

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She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

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Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

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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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For gold the merchant ploughs the main, The farmer ploughs the manor.

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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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Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

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Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

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Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.

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It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!

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