Famous Proverbs
389 Proverbs about Gold / Page 7
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He fishes well who uses a golden hook.62.
'Tis folly to love fetters, though they be of gold.63.
'Tis gold Which makes the true man killed, and saves the thief; Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man; what Can it not do, and undo?64.
What is an exalted position to a low fellow but a golden ring in a swine's snout?65.
If the walls were adamant, gold would take the town.66.
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.67.
The body pays for a slip of the foot, and gold pays for a slip of the tongue.68.
A man of straw is better than a woman of gold.69.
I hate fetters though they be of gold.70.
I renounce the golden basin in which I have to spit blood.