Gold has worked down from Alexander's time... When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold.
Gold will be slave or master.
— Horace
To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow.
— Johnson
The man who works for the gold in the job rather than for the money in the pay envelope, is the fellow who gets on.
Gold makes the ugly beautiful.
— Moliere
Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble.
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
Curst greed of gold, what crimes thy tyrant power has caused.
— Virgil