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The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.

C. J. Cherryh

Home

I ordered gold in the meantime to be showered down without ceasing among the happy multitude.

Adelbert von Chamisso

Gold

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

Adelbert von Chamisso

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

Jonathan Carroll

Gold

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

Tim Cahill

Gold

Mystery

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

Samuel Butler

Virtue

Gold

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

Richard Burton

Gold

Man

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

Rita Mae Brown

End

Gold

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Gold

Will

People have said to me, You can't write songs. You can't play an instrument. But I've got 10 gold records.

There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Karen Black

End

Gold

Everybody seized upon a bit of the beast. The Sultan claimed the liver, which, when dried and powdered, is worth twice its weight in gold as medicine.

I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.