Mark Twain Quotes about Gold

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When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

Business, Gold, Good Times

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

Mark Twain

Sky, People, Gold

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

Mark Twain

Precious Stones, Gold, Genius

Mark Twain, “Genius”

Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

Mark Twain

Men, Ignorant, Gold

Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.583, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

The real yellow peril: Gold.

Mark Twain

Real, Yellow, Gold

Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.284, Courier Corporation

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

Mark Twain

Money, Gold, Twenties

Mark Twain (2008). “10 Books in 1”, p.117, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

Mark Twain Quotes about Gold

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