To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess

People fall down, winners get up, and gold medal winners just get up faster!

Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.

Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

I did a double CD, 'The Element of Surprise,' in 1998. That album went gold.

Time hates love, wants love poor,/but love spins gold, gold, gold from straw.

I'm thrilled to be working with Goldline, the very best in the gold business.

London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

Confidence is the most important thing, more important than gold or currency.

The finest compliment you can pay a man is that his word was as good as gold.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Poor thieves in halters we behold; And great thieves in their chains of gold.

Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

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

I've reached a point where I feel the only asset I have confidence in is gold.

I'm just glad my gold medal's at home, because I'd hate to try to win another.

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.

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

For love is mor than gold or gret richesse; Gold faileth ofte; love wol abyde.

Cheerful poor is rich with a smile, sulky rich is poor with a bullion of gold.

My dream is to get gold medal both in the world championship and the Olympics.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

Power posing! I do it before any appearance and recommend it to everyone. Gold!

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

Genius, like gold and precious stones, is chiefly prized because of its rarity.

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

Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.

Getting silver and gold out of junk machinery was quick to be learnt by others.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.

I've won the African Cup, I've won an Olympic gold medal. That says everything.

When I can see my face in it [the liquid gold in the crucible] then it is pure.

I don't even look at gold as gold anymore. Gold is just another piece of paper.

The groom is like a flower of gold. When he walks, blossoms at his feet unfold.

Poetry is the alchemy which teaches us to convert ordinary materials into gold.

That's the shame about Miles Copeland; he's evil, but he's got a heart of gold.

In my case, dust has become gold: Today, I work with people I grew up admiring.

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

While paralyzed, I won a gold and three silver medals as a competitive swimmer.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

And frankly, I'm a huge gold digger and The Miz is about to make a lot of money!

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.

Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down.

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