Sayings About Precious Metals

#1. President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.

Imelda Marcos

#2. As the Iberian explorers made their way down the African coast - the Portuguese going around the Horn to East Asia, the Spaniards cutting west to the Americas - both powers had two main goals in mind: finding precious metals and planting sugarcane. (Oh, and spreading the word of God.) The

Tom Reiss

#3. As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.

Herman Melville

#4. Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle East, assertive oil producers: it is 1973-74 all over again, and at dictation speed.

James Buchan

#5. As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

Henry David Thoreau

#6. Gold mould as if blisters of the body can become precious metals.

Ali Smith

#7. We are overdone with banking institutions, which have banished the precious metals, and substituted a more fluctuating and unsafe medium ... These have withdrawn capital from useful improvements and employments to nourish idleness ... These are evils more easily to be deplored than remedied.

Thomas Jefferson

#8. The prevailing view that Smith criticized was mercantilism, which held that wealth consisted of the stock of precious metals in a country.

Edd S. Noell

#9. The monopoly of a single bank is certainly an evil. The multiplication of them was intended to cure it; but it multiplied an influence of the same character with the first, and completed the supplanting the precious metals by a paper circulation. Between such parties the less we meddle the better.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. The positive aspect of my negative view is essentially that you shouldn't own cash and government bonds, but you should be in assets like real estate or equities or precious metals or in commodities.

Marc Faber

#11. The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals. Capital is, after all, money used in a certain way, and is by no means identical with all money uses.

David Harvey

#12. If precious metals had been abundant, they would not have been precious.

Henry Hazlitt

#13. There's no such thing as a favorite investment. But I think I tend to invest in Asia in promising countries, in equities, in real estate, and I own precious metals, obviously.

Marc Faber

#14. An author is like a jeweller, with words as their gemstones and imagination the precious metals.

Steve K. Smy

#15. From the inception of our nation our American ancestors intended for the United States to operate under a precious-metals monetary system or, more specifically, under a monetary system in which people used gold and silver coins rather than paper money as the media of exchange.

Jacob G. Hornberger

#16. Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.

Enrique Pena Nieto

#17. A great and frequent error in our judgment of human nature is to suppose that those sentiments and feelings have no existence, which may be only for a time concealed. The precious metals are not found at the surface of the earth, except in sandy places.

Arthur Helps

#18. When depreciated, mutilated, or debased coinage (or currency) is in concurrent circulation with money of high value in terms of precious metals, the good money automatically disappears.

Thomas Gresham

#19. I wonder if, in the dark night of the sea, the octopus dreams of me.

N. Scott Momaday

#20. Everybody works but the vacant lot

Henry George

#21. Find out what you really like if you can. Find out what is really important to you. Then sing your song. You will have something to sing about and your whole heart will be in the singing.

Robert Henri

#22. Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe

Plotinus

#23. I'D TAKEN HER, but ultimately, she'd taken me.

Pepper Winters

#24. Ancients pulled metals more precious than gold from the center of the earth - They spun into giant lacy wings that flew them to the stars and back
"Is that what you'd do with wings?"
She shook her head "No, I'd fly to the stars, but I'd never come back

Mary E. Pearson

#25. When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.

Elie Wiesel