Gold Preferred to Paper Money or Bank Credit

"O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, which makes bank credit like a bark of vapor." --Lord Byron

A Soul Worth More Than All Gold: But Not to Merchants

"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." -- Oscar Wilde

Golds Value Increased by Lesser, Common Alloys

"A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy." -- Samuel Butler

Wisdom Cannot Be Gotten For Gold, But Less Without It

"Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it." -- Samuel Butler

More Gold In Ideas than Buried in the Earth

"More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth." -- Napoleon Hill

Strength of Character Exceeds Value of Gold

"Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold." -- Euripides

Search For Gold Brought Greater Value to Alchemists

"The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value." -- Arthur Schopenhauer

Riches Bind Slaves in Chains Made of Gold

"Banks and riches are chains of gold, but still chains" -- Edmund Ruffin

Invest in Health; Reap Wealth: Mahatma Gandhi Quote

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” -- Mahatma Gandhi

Mr. T: Golden Rule: Owner of Gold, Makes Rules

"I believe in the Golden Rule. The Man with the Gold, Rules." -- Mr. T

Scrooge's Nephew Fred on Money at Christmas

"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say, Christmas among the rest." ... "And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!" -- Ebenezer Scrooge's nephew Fred in "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.

Lord Byron on Preference for Gold Over Paper Money

"O Gold! I still prefer thee unto paper, Which makes bank credit like a bark of vapour." -- Lord Byron

Hidden Money Rots - Used Money Grows

"Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, But gold that's put to use more gold begets." -- William Shakespeare

Spend Your Money - Your Time is Gone Now

So Mister Moneybags, you're loaded? So? You'll never take it with you when you go. You've made your pile, but squandered time. Grown Old you can't gloat over age like hoarded gold. -- Tony Harrison, Palladas: Poems, 1975