Her Moral; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
20th century
“This is truly the age of gold,
since only gold wins and gold reigns.”
Veramente il secol d'oro è questo,
Poiché sol vince l'oro, e regna l'oro.
Act II, scene i.
Aminta (1573)
Haywood, William D. The Autobiography of Big Bill Haywood. New York: International Publishers, 1929, p. 171.
“If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace.”
On the fact that difficulties serve a purpose - "Bewitching Favour" http://www.africanews.com/site/Bewitching_Favour/list_messages/27081 Africa News (September 22 2009)
“For gold in phisike is a cordial;
Therefore he loved gold in special.”
General Prologue, l. 445
The Canterbury Tales
1980s and later, Interview in Silver & Gold Report (1980)
“The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.”
“What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?”
Jane in Ch. 8 "Mrs. Corry"
Mary Poppins (1934)
“But all thing which that shineth as the gold
Ne is no gold, as I have herd it told.”
The Chanones Yemannes Tale, l. 16430
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Canterbury Tales
