Definition of gold

"gold" in the noun sense

1. gold

coins made of gold

2. amber, gold

a deep yellow color

"an amber light illuminated the room"

"he admired the gold of her hair"

3. gold, Au, atomic number 79

a soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and univalent) metallic element occurs mainly as nuggets in rocks and alluvial deposits does not react with most chemicals but is attacked by chlorine and aqua regia

4. gold

great wealth

"Whilst that for which all virtue now is sold, and almost every vice

5. gold

something likened to the metal in brightness or preciousness or superiority etc.

"the child was as good as gold"

"she has a heart of gold"

"gold" in the adjective sense

1. gold, golden, gilded

made from or covered with gold

"gold coins"

"the gold dome of the Capitol"

"the golden calf"

"gilded icons"

2. aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden

having the deep slightly brownish color of gold

"long aureate (or golden) hair"

"a gold carpet"

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Quotations for gold

Richer than rubies,
Dearer than gold,
Woman, true woman,
Glad we behold! [ Old love-song ]

Saint-seducing gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold rules the world. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Gold's worth is gold. [ Italian Proverb ]

No fence against gold. [ Proverb ]

The accursed lust of gold. [ Virgil ]

A good heart is worth gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

Yes, gold is but a chimaera. [ Scribe-Meyerbeer ]

Promising mountains of gold. [ Ter ]

A gold key opens every door. [ Proverb ]

Silver from the living
Is gold in the giving:
Gold from the dying
Is but silver a-flying.
Gold and silver from the dead
Turn too often into lead. [ Fuller ]

Old women's gold is not ugly. [ Proverb ]

Humanity is better than gold. [ Goldsmith ]

Vice rules where gold reigns. [ Proverb ]

All is not gold that glitters. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Gold begets in brethren hate;
Gold in families debate;
Gold does friendship separate;
Gold does civil wars create. [ Abraham Cowley ]

All that glitters is not gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

All that glisters is not gold. [ Cervantes ]

Temperance is a bridle of gold. [ Burton ]

Better to get wisdom than gold. [ Bible ]

Fetters even of gold are heavy. [ Proverb ]

The purest gold is most ductile. [ Proverb ]

When I could not sleep for cold,
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with roofs of gold,
My beautiful castles in Spain! [ Lowell ]

The true and good resemble gold. [ Jacobi ]

Gold hath no lustre of its own.
It shines by temperate use alone. [ Francis ]

A man may buy even gold too dear. [ Proverb ]

A useful trade is a mine of gold. [ Proverb ]

Bright and yellow, hard and cold. [ Hood ]

Gold and diamonds are not riches. [ John Ruskin ]

He is worth gold that carries it. [ Proverb ]

That is gold which is worth gold. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A gold ring does not cure a felon. [ Proverb ]

Parnassus has no gold mines in it. [ Proverb ]

Poison is drunk out of golden cups. [ Seneca ]

O cursed hunger of pernicious gold! [ Dryden ]

Gold is no balm to a wounded spirit. [ Proverb ]

Gold is the sovereign of sovereigns. [ Rivarol ]

Because my blessings are abus'd,
Must I be censur'd, curs'd, accus'd?
Even virtue's self by knaves is made
A cloak to carry on the trade. [ Gay ]

Gold - what can it not do, and undo? [ Shakespeare ]

The buttercups, bright-eyed and bold,
Held up their chalices of gold
To catch the sunshine and the dew. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]

Gold - the picklock that never fails. [ Massinger ]

And all the meadows, wide unrolled,
Were green and silver, green and gold.
Where buttercups and daisies spun
Their shining tissues in the sun. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]

Gold all is not that doth golden seem. [ Spenser ]

For gold the merchant ploughs the main.
The farmer ploughs the manor. [ Burns ]

To hide true worth from public view,
Is burying diamonds in their mine,
All is not gold that shines, 'tis true;
But all that is gold ought to shine. [ Bishop ]

He that labours and thrives spins gold. [ Proverb ]

The plague of gold strikes far and near. [ Mrs. Browning ]

Her cap of velvet could not hold
The tresses of her hair of gold.
That flowed and floated like the stream.
And fell in masses down her neck. [ Longfellow ]

Electric telegraphs, printing, gas,
Tobacco, balloons, and steam.
Are little events that have come to pass
Since the days of the old regime.
And, spite of Lempriere's dazzling page,
I'd give - though it might seem bold -
A hundred years of the Golden Age
For a year of the Age of Gold. [ Henry S. Leigh ]

A good name is better than bags of gold. [ Cervantes ]

Thou more than stone of the philosopher! [ Byron ]

The early morning has gold in its mouth. [ Franklin ]

Stronger than thunder's winged force
All-powerful gold can speed its course;
Through watchful guards its passage make,
And loves through solid walls do break. [ Francis ]

Beauty provokes thieves sooner than gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

Graceful, tossing plume of glowing gold,
Waving lonely on the rocky ledge;
Leaning seaward, lovely to behold,
Clinging to the high cliff's ragged edge. [ Celia Thaxter ]

To purchase Heaven has gold the power?
Can gold remove the mortal hour?
In life can love be bought with gold?
Are friendship's pleasures to be sold?
No - all that's worth a wish - a thought.
Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought.
Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind,
Let nobler views engage thy mind. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Gold that is put to use more gold begets. [ Shakespeare ]

The dangers gather as the treasures rise. [ Dr. Johnson ]

An handful of trade is an handful of gold. [ Proverb ]

If all were rich, gold would be penniless. [ Bailey ]

And O the buttercups! that field
O' the cloth of gold, where pennons swam -
Where France set up his lilied shield,
His oriflamb,
And Henry's lion-standard rolled:
What was it to their matchless sheen,
Their million million drops of gold
Among the green! [ Jean Ingelow ]

Alas, could experience be bought for gold! [ Mme. Deluzy ]

He that labours and perseveres spins gold. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Wooing thee,
I found thee of more value
Than stamps in gold or sums in sealed bags;
And it is the very riches of thyself
That now I aim at. [ William Shakespeare ]

Curst be the gold and silver which persuade
Weak men to follow far fatiguing trade!
The lily peace outshines the silver store,
And life is dearer than the golden ore.
Yet money tempts us over the desert brown,
To every distant mart and wealthy town. [ Collins ]

Can gold calm passion or make reason shine?
Can we dig peace, or wisdom, from the mine?
Wisdom to gold prefer; for 'tis much less
To make our fortune, than our happiness. [ Young ]

What nature wants, commodious gold bestows;
'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows. [ Pope ]

Love converts the hut into a palace of gold. [ Hölty ]

Gold is but a chimaera, or fabulous monster. [ S. Meyerbeer ]

Faster and more fast,
O'er night's brim, day boils at last;
Boils, pure gold, over the cloud-cup's brim. [ Robert Browning ]

The glorious sun
Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,
Turning with splendor of his precious eye
The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

No lock will hold against the power of gold. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Morn, in the white wake of the morning star,
Came, furrowing all the orient into gold. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The foxglove, with its stately bells,
Of purple, shall adorn thy dells;
The wallflower, on each rifted rock,
From liberal blossoms shall breathe down,
(Gold blossoms frecked with iron-brown,)
Its fragrance; while the hollyhock,
The pink, and the carnation vie
With lupin and with lavender.
To decorate the fading year;
And larkspurs, many-hued, shall drive
Gloom from the groves, where red leaves lie.
And Nature seems but half alive. [ D. M. Moir ]

Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies:
Learn this, ye men of wealth - a heavy purse
In a fool's pocket is a heavy curse. [ Cumberland ]

No, let the monarch's bags and coffers hold
The flattering mighty, nay, all-mighty gold. [ John Wolcott ]

Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. [ Milton ]

Gold that buys health can never be ill spent.
Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment. [ John Webster ]

Even grave divines submit to glittering gold,
The best of consciences are bought and sold. [ Dr. Wolcot ]

Judges and senates have been bought for gold. [ Pope ]

An ass laden with gold overtakes every thing. [ Proverb ]

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

Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread. [ Young ]

An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold. [ Proverb ]

All is not golde that outward sheweth bright. [ Lydgate ]

When gold speaks, no reason the least avails. [ Proverb ]

These grains of gold are not grains of wheat!
These bars of silver thou canst not eat;
These jewels and pearls and precious stones
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones,
Nor keep the feet of death one hour
From climbing the stairways of thy tower. [ Longfellow ]

O what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! [ William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor ]

The eastern gate, all fiery red,
Opening on Neptune, with fair blessed beams,
Turns into yellow gold his salt-green streams. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold glitters most when virtue shines no more. [ Young ]

Gold is tried in the fire, friendship in need. [ Danish Proverb ]

Around the neck what dross are gold and pearl! [ Young ]

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets;
But gold that's put to use more gold begets. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold thou may'st safely touch; but if it stick
Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick. [ Herbert ]

If by fire of sooty coal the empiric alchymist
Can turn, or holds it possible to turn,
Metals of drossest ore to perfect gold. [ Milton ]

For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws. [ Dr. Johnson ]

God's plans like lilies pure and white unfold;
We must not tear the close-shut leaves apart;
Time will reveal the calyxes of gold. [ Mary R. Smith ]

That book in many's eyes doth share the glory,
That in gold clasps locks in the golden story. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold is the strength, the sinews of the world;
The health, the soul, the beauty most divine;
A mask of gold hides all deformities;
Gold is heaven's physic, life's restorative. [ Decker ]

When gold speaks you may even hold your tongue. [ Proverb ]

That I might live alone once with my gold!
Oh 't is a sweet companion I kind and true!
A man may trust it, when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf.
That which makes all men false, is true itself. [ Jonson ]

O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake
The fool throws up his interest in both worlds. [ Blair ]

Lo, here the gentle lark, weary of rest.
From his moist cabinet mounts up on high.
And wakes the morning, from whose silver breast
The sun ariseth in his majesty;
Who doth the world so gloriously behold,
That cedar-tops and hills seem burnish'd gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is thy gold; worse poison to men's souls. [ William Shakespeare ]

Chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron. [ Proverb ]

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men. [ Proverb ]

Flowers are Love's truest language; they betray,
Like the divining rods of Magi old,
Where precious wealth lies buried, not of gold,
But love - strong love, that never can decay! [ Park Benjamin ]

Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines!
In the soft light of these serenest skies;
From the broad highland region, black with pines,
Fair as the hills of Paradise they rise.
Bathed in the tint Peruvian slaves behold
In rosy flushes on the virgin gold. [ William Cullen Bryant ]

Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold;
There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubims. [ William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice ]

So work the honey-bees;
Creatures, that by a rule in nature teach
The art of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home;
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad;
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds;
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home.
To the tent royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold;
The civil citizens kneading up the honey;
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate;
The sad-ey'd justice, with his surly hum.
Delivering over to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone. [ William Shakespeare ]

How few, like Daniel, have God and gold together! [ George Villiers ]

The wise weigh their words in a balance for gold. [ Ecclus ]

Gold! gold! in all ages the curse of mankind,
Thy fetters are forged for the soul and the mind.
The limbs may be free as the wings of a bird.
And the mind be the slave of a look and a word.
To gain thee men barter eternity's crown,
Yield honour, affection, and lasting renown. [ Park Benjamin ]

Gold adulterates one thing only - the human heart. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

Can pocket states, or fetch or carry kings. (Gold) [ Pope ]

There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murders in this loathsome world.
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell,
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none. [ William Shakespeare ]

And mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair. [ Byron ]

Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. [ Horace ]

Gold, worse poison to men's souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world,
Than these poor compounds that thou may'st not sell. [ Shakespeare ]

Gold, when present, causes fear; when absent, grief. [ Proverb ]

Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [ Horace ]

The touchstone distinguishes between gold and brass. [ Proverb ]

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains. [ Ruffini ]

The balance distinguisheth not between gold and lead. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold, I wis. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If it were not for the belly, the back might wear gold. [ Proverb ]

An ass loaded with gold, climbs to the top of a castle. [ Proverb ]

There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,
Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on. [ Lowell ]

Gold has wings which carry everywhere except to heaven. [ Rus. Proverb ]

If the walls were adamant, yet gold will take the town. [ Proverb ]

Gold, father of flatterers, of pain and care begot,
A fear it is to have thee, and a pain to have thee not. [ Palladas ]

Gold lies deep in the mountain, but dirt on the highway. [ German Proverb ]

Who will make a door of gold must knock a nail every day. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and silken cords pinch. [ Proverb ]

Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. [ Chesterfield ]

You will never be master of gold enough to break your back. [ Proverb ]

Little thieves have iron chains and great thieves gold ones. [ Dutch Proverb ]

Gold does not satisfy love; it must be paid in its own coin. [ Mme. Deluzy ]

Bishop of gold, staff of wood; bishop of wood, staff of gold. [ French Proverb ]

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be in sorrow. [ Johnson ]

In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver. [ Joubert ]

The glittering tresses which, now shaken loose, Showered gold. [ Owen Meredith ]

The grass may be greener on the other side but it is still grass
An ass may be laden with gold but it is still an ass. [ Unknown ]

Gold and silver were mingled with dirt till avarice parted them. [ Proverb ]

How quickly nature falls to revolt when gold becomes her object! [ Shakespeare ]

As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every minute of time. [ Mason ]

Gold causes strange disorders when it falls into a fool s hand. [ Proverb ]

Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night. [ Proverb ]

To the true teacher, Time's hourglass should still run gold-dust. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. [ Solomon ]

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. [ Fuller ]

Children cry for nuts and apples, and old men for gold and silver. [ Proverb ]

Accursed thirst for gold! what dost thou not compel mortals to do? [ Virgil ]

O, I cry your mercy; There is my purse, to cure that blow of thine. [ William Shakespeare ]

In my dwelling no ivory gleams, nor fretted roof covered with gold. [ Horace ]

Diligence is the philosopher's stone, that turns everything to gold. [ N. Webster ]

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. [ Dr. Johnson ]

A great load of gold is more burdensome than a light load of gravel. [ Proverb ]

Gold is the fool's curtain, which hides all his defects from the world. [ Feltham ]

Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn all earthly things but virtue. [ Shelley ]

He thought to have turned iron into gold, and he turned gold into iron. [ Proverb ]

Content is the philosopher's stone, that turns all it touches into gold. [ Proverb ]

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow! Yes, the whole man, as the crucible gold! [ Lamartine ]

Because its blessings are abused, must gold be censured, cursed, accused? [ Gay ]

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no place invincible, wherein an ass loaden with gold may not enter. [ Collett ]

Truth, like gold, is not the less so for being newly brought out of the mine. [ Locke ]

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still. [ Rivarol ]

A proverb says: A hearth of one's own and a good wife are worth gold and pearls. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Genius is the gold in the mine; talent is the miner who works and brings it out. [ Lady Blessington ]

Gold is, in its last analysis, the sweat of the poor and the blood of the brave. [ Joseph Napoleon ]

A faithful friend is better than gold; a medicine of misery, an only possession. [ Miss L. Barton ]

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas it is only the means of obtaining it. [ Rochefoucauld ]

An ass cover'd with gold is more respected, than a good horse with a pack-saddle. [ Proverb ]

A diamond, though set in horn, is still a diamond, and sparkles as in purest gold. [ Massinger ]

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Did a person but know the value of an enemy, he would purchase him with pure gold. [ Abbe de Raunci ]

Extended empire, like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendour. [ Johnson ]

Who thinketh to buy villainy with gold, Shall ever find such faith so bought - so sold. [ William Shakespeare ]

Apothegms are, in history, the same as the pearls in the sand, or the gold in the mine. [ Erasmus ]

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting. [ Lowell ]

As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. [ Ovid ]

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's. [ Quarles ]

Long, glorious locks, which drop upon thy cheek like gold-hued cloudflakes on the rosy morn. [ Bailey ]

Gifts are as gold that adorns the temple; grace is like the temple that sanctifies the gold. [ Burkitt ]

Thou true magnetic pole, to which all hearts point duly north, like trembling needles! (Gold) [ Byron ]

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. [ Swift ]

Gold glitters most where virtue shines no more, as stars from absent suns have leave to shine. [ Young ]

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty. [ Plutarch ]

Thought in the mind may come forth gold or dross; when coined in words, we know its real worth. [ Young ]

A man that keeps riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. [ Proverb ]

I have discovered the philosopher's stone that turns everything into gold; it is, Pay as you go. [ Randolph ]

He that keeps up his riches and lives poorly, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles. [ Proverb ]

Dress deceives us: jewels and gold hide everything: the girl herself is the least part of herself. [ Ovid ]

Xenophon wrote with a swan's quill, Plato with a pen of gold, and Thucylides with a brazen stylus. [ Joubert ]

Gold, like the sun, which melts wax and hardens clay, expands great souls and contracts bad hearts. [ Rivarol ]

Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirsty for more, opens wide her jaws for gold. [ Claudianus ]

Riches do not consist in having more gold and silver, but in having more in proportion than our neighbours. [ Locke ]

Genius, in one respect, is like gold - numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. [ Colton ]

Petitions, not sweetened with gold, are but unsavory and oft refused: or, if received, are pocketed, not read. [ Massinger ]

The age we live in is the true age of gold; by gold men attain to the highest honour, and win even love itself. [ Ovid ]

To express the most difficult matters clearly, and everything intelligibly, is to strike coins out of pure gold. [ Geibel ]

When a strong brain is weighed with a true heart, it seems to me like balancing a bubble against a wedge of gold. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it, to be in sorrow. [ Johnson ]

Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore and called it gold. [ Shelley ]

What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Gold loves to make its way through guards, and breaks through barriers of stone more easily than the lightning's bolt. [ Horace ]

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ! [ Plato ]

Beauty attracts us men, but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed with gold or silver beside, it attracts with tenfold power. [ Richter ]

The little and short sayings of nice and excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds. [ Tillotson ]

The lust of gold succeeds the lust of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Midas longed for gold. He got gold, so that whatever he touched became gold; and he, with his long ears, was little the better for it. [ Carlyle ]

A single word is often a concentrated poem, a little grain of pure gold, capable of being beaten out into a broad extent of gold-leaf. [ Trench ]

You know the Ark of Israel and the calf of Belial were both made of gold. Religion has never yet changed the metal of her one adoration. [ Ouida ]

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks. [ Thackeray ]

Many in hot pursuit have hasted to the goal of wealth, but have lost, as they ran, those apples of gold, the mind and the power to enjoy it. [ Tupper ]

O cursed lust of gold; when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds, First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come. [ Blair ]

He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine! [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Garments will fall to pieces, jewels and gold will lose something of their lustre, but the fame that great poems acquire will last through all time. [ Ovid ]

There are forty men of wit for one of sense; and he that will carry nothing about him but gold, will be every day at a loss for want of ready change. [ Unknown ]

The magic power of love consists in its ennobling whatever its breath touches, like the sun whose golden ray transmutes even thunderclouds into gold. [ Grillparzer ]

A table without music is little better than a manger; for music at meals is like a carbuncle set in gold, or the signet of an emerald highly burnished. [ Epictetus ]

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them. [ Seneca ]

With many readers brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable mines of gold under ground. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]

Whoever sinks his vessel by overloading it, though it be with gold, and silver, and precious stones, will give his owner but an ill account of his voyage. [ Locke ]

The soul moralises the past in order not to be demoralised by it, and finds in the crucible of experience only the gold that she herself has poured into it. [ Amiel ]

Qualities of a too superior order render a man less adapted to society. One does not go to market with big lumps of gold; one goes with silver or small change. [ Chamfort ]

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. [ Johnson ]

By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused: the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint. [ Propertius ]

When you hear that your neighbour has picked up a purse of gold in the street, never run out into the same street, looking about you, in order to pick up such another. [ Goldsmith ]

Thinkers are as scarce as gold; but he whose thought embraces all his subject, who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. [ Lavater ]

It is gold which buys admittance; and it is gold which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief: nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what can it not do and undo? [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold is Caesar's treasure, man is God's; thy gold hath Caesar's image, and thou hast God's; give, therefore, those things unto Caesar which are Caesar's, and unto God which are God's. [ Quarles ]

There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp - gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station. [ Colton ]

Diligence and perseverance are the composites of the philosopher's stone, and instances are not wanting wherein their application has transformed the poorest material into the purest gold. [ W. T. Burke ]

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, I swallowed it. So sue me. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Through tattered clothes small vices do appear: robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold, and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks; arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw doth pierce it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold is called the bait of sin, the snare of souls, and the hook of death; which being aptly applied may be compared to a fire, whereof a little is good to warm one, but too much will burn him altogether. [ Sir R. Filmer ]

Fine sense and exalted sense are not half as useful as common sense. There are forty men of wit for one man of sense. And he that will carry nothing about him but gold will be every day at a loss for readier change. [ Pope ]

Give him gold enough, and marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with never a tooth in her head, though she have as many diseases as two and fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal. [ William Shakespeare ]

Very few people know how to enjoy life. Some say to themselves: I do this or that, therefore I am amused: I have paid so many pieces of gold, hence I feel so much pleasure; and they wear away their lives on that grindstone. [ A. de Musset ]

I know not whether there exists such a thing as a coin stamped with a pair of pinions; but I wish this were the device which monarchs put upon their dollars and ducats, to show that riches make to themselves wings, and fly away. [ Gotthold ]

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. [ Richard Cecil ]

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [ William Shakespeare ]

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant, accommodates itself to the meanest capacities, silences the loud and clamorous, and brings over the most obstinate and inflexible. [ Addison ]

At the morning hour, when the half-awakened sun, trampling down the lingering shadows of the west, spreads his ruby-tinted tresses over jessamines and roses, drying with cloths of gold Aurora's tears of mingled fire and snow, which the sun's rays converted into pearls. [ Calderon ]

It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life. [ Mountford ]

O blessed health! thou art above all gold and treasure; 'tis thou who enlargest the soul, and openest all its powers to receive instruction, and to relish virtue. He that has thee has little more to wish for, and he that is so wretched as to want thee, wants everything with thee. [ Sterne ]

Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold, a woman adds to it her sympathy. A small sum in the hands of a woman does more good than a hundred times as much in the hands of a man. Feminine charity renews every day the miracle of Christ feeding a multitude with a few loaves and fishes. [ E. Legouve ]

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at pace, and above the world. But the law of association often makes those who begin by loving gold as a servant finish by becoming themselves its slaves; and independence without wealth is at least as common as wealth without independence. [ Colton ]

Charms which, like flowers, lie on the surface and always glitter, easily produce vanity; hence women, wits, players, soldiers, are vain, owing to their presence, figure and dress. On the contrary, other excellences, which lie down like gold and are discovered with difficulty, leave their possessors modest and proud. [ Richter ]

The gloomy recess of an ecclesiastical library is like a harbor, into which a far-travelling curiosity has sailed with its freight, and cast anchor; the ponderous tomes are bales of the mind's merchandise; odors of distant countries and times steal from the red leaves the swelling ridges of vellum, and the titles in tarnished gold. [ R. A. Willmott ]

Alchemy may be compared to the man who told his sons he had left them gold buried somewhere in his vineyard; where they by digging found no gold, but by turning up the mould, about the roots of their vines, procured a plentiful vintage. So the search and endeavors to make gold have brought many useful inventions and instructive experiments to light. [ Bacon ]

It is very singular, how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood or betray its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal. [ Hawthorne ]

Necessary or Essential? Necessary signifies not to be departed from, and is a general and an indefinite term. The essential contains that essence or property which cannot be omitted. It is necessary for men to die. Exercise is essential to the preservation of health. There is an essential difference between gold and silver. Here we could not properly use necessary for essential. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment placing its victim naked on a bed of briars and bristles, thinly covered with rose-leaves, adorning his brow with a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing, and fretting, and riddling him through and through with incessant discharges of hot shot from a masked battery; laying bare the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of his mind, and then blandly touching them with ice, or smilingly pricking them with needles. [ E. P. Whipple ]

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in defense of their idolatry - the power of their idol. It is true that, like other idols, it can neither move, see, hear, feel, nor understand; but, unlike other idols, it has often communicated all these powers to those who had them not, and annihilated them in those who had. This idol can boast of two peculiarities; it is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. [ Colton ]

Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made man: teach, or preach, or labour as you will, everlasting difference is set between one man's capacity and another's; and this God-given supremacy is the priceless thing, always just as rare in the world at one time as another.... And nearly the best thing that men can generally do is to set themselves, not to the attainment, but the discovery of this: learning to know gold, when we see it, from iron-glance, and diamond from flint-sand, being for most of us a more profitable employment than trying to make diamonds of our own charcoal. [ John Ruskin ]

gold in Scrabble®

The word gold is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters gold:

GOLD
(24)
GOLD
(24)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word gold

GOLD
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The 97 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In gold

GOLD
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GOLD
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GOLD
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GOD
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DOG
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DOG
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GOD
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DOG
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GOLD
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GOLD
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LOG
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GOLD
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LOG
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GOLD
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LOG
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OLD
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OLD
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OLD
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GOD
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DOG
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DO
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GO
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DO
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GO
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GO
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GO
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OLD
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GO
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DO
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OLD
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GO
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gold in Words With Friends™

The word gold is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters gold:

GOLD
(42)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word gold

GOLD
(42)
GOLD
(36)
GOLD
(24)
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GOLD
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The 104 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In gold

GOLD
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LOG
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GOD
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LOG
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DOG
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GOLD
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GOD
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OLD
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OLD
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GOLD
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GOLD
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GOD
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LOG
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LOG
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LOG
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GO
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Words within the letters of gold

2 letter words in gold (2 words)

3 letter words in gold (4 words)

4 letter words in gold (1 word)

gold + 1 blank (4 words)

Word Growth involving gold

Shorter words in gold

go

old

Longer words containing gold

goldbearing

goldbrick goldbricked

goldbrick goldbricker goldbrickers

goldbrick goldbricking

goldbrick goldbricks

goldbug goldbugs

golddust

golden goldenness

golden goldenrod goldenrods

golden goldens goldenseal goldenseals

goldfield goldfields

goldfinch goldfinches

goldfish goldfishes

goldleaf

goldless

goldlike

goldmine goldminer goldminers

goldmine goldmines

goldmining

goldpan goldpanned

goldpan goldpanner goldpanners

goldpan goldpanning

goldpan goldpans

goldplate goldplated

goldplate goldplater goldplaters

goldplate goldplates

goldplating

goldrush goldrushes

golds goldsmith goldsmithing

golds goldsmith goldsmiths

golds goldstone goldstones

golds marigolds

goldwork goldworker goldworkers

marigold marigolds

nongold

radiogold