They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
I try to do the right thing with money. Save a dollar here and there, clip some coupons. Buy ten gold chains instead of 20. Four summer homes instead of eight.
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.
Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
I'd rather get a nice warmup suit. That's something I can use. Gold medals just sit there. When I get old, maybe I could sell them if I need the money.
Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.