Names:
Joe Gold
Quotes:
Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
View quotes by Thomas Hood
It is fantastic, and I feel so honoured and privileged to win this gold medal [on being Britain's first of many gold medallists at the Beijing Olympics]
View quotes by Nicole Cook
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
View quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I win the gold I might say nothing and just wander past him, hopefully with some kind of medal - a gold one preferably. I think I might dangle it in front of his face or something. [on how he'd react to a French rival who got him disqualified from a race!]
View quotes by Ben Ainslie
All our hopes are pinned on one person - Paula Radcliffe. If Paula doesn't win gold then we are going to have a postmortem on this Olympic team. [she didn't win gold, but Britain came top 10 overall in 2004 Athens Olympics]
View quotes by Roger Black
My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medallist.'
View quotes by Michael Phelps
All is not gold that glisteneth
View quotes by Thomas Middleton
Love is the only gold.
View quotes by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Almighty gold
View quotes by George Farquhar
Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse
View quotes by Matthew Henry
Detestable desire for gold!
View quotes by Virgil
The man who treasures his friends is usually solid gold himself.
View quotes by Marjorie Holmes
A mask of gold hides all deformities.
View quotes by Thomas Dekker
It is like children, you don't have a favourite [gold medal]
View quotes by Steve Redgrave
I think we all have had better days in competition [after winning gold]
View quotes by Carly Patterson
It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
View quotes by Jonathan Swift
The best race I have ever run. [on his leg in the gold-winning 4x100m relay]
View quotes by Marlon Devonish
Now cheaply bought, for thrice their weight in gold
View quotes by John Ferriar
I can't absorb [on winning an Olympic gold medal]
View quotes by Nicolas Massu
Avarice increases with the increasing pile of gold
View quotes by Juvenal
Proverbs:
Silence Is Golden
All That Glisters Is Not Gold
Golden Dishes Will Never Turn Black
A Book Holds A House Of Gold
A Golden Key Opens All Doors
A Good Name Is More Desirable Than Great Riches; To Be Esteemed Is Better Than Silver Or Gold
Kill Not The Goose That Lays The Golden Egg
The Ass Loaded With Gold Still Eats Thistles
One For Sorrow, Two For Joy, Three For A Girl, Four For A Boy, Five For Silver, Six For Gold Seven For A Secret Not To Be Sold Eight For Heaven Nine For Hell And Ten For The Devils Own Cell
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