Pastoral Resources

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

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

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.

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

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.

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.

My salvation was a free gift. I didn't have to work for it and it's better than any gold medal that I've ever won.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.