„But all thing which that shineth as the goldNe is no gold, as I have herd it told.“

— Geoffrey Chaucer
„Such was life in the Golden Gate:Gold dusted all we drank and ate,And I was one of the children told,'We all must eat our peck of gold.“
— Robert Frost
„The apostles had no gold, but lots of glory. We have lots of gold, but no glory.“
— Leonard Ravenhill
„All the dust the wind blew highAppeared like god in the sunset sky,But I was one of the children toldSome of the dust was really gold.“
— Robert Frost
„But what's worth more than gold?""Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?“
— Terry Pratchett
„all that glitters is not gold“
— Geoffrey Chaucer
„All that glisters is not gold.“
— William Shakespeare