14 Latin Proverbs about Gold
All Latin Proverbs | Proverbs about Gold1. Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
2. A ring of gold in a sow's nostril.
3. An ape is an ape, though decked with gold.
4. Believe not that all that shines is gold.
5. Eloquence avails nothing against the voice of gold.
6. Fetters of gold are still fetters, and silken cords pinch.
7. Flight towards preferment will be but slow without some golden feathers.
8. Gold is proved by fire.
9. Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold.
10. He catches the best fish who angles with a golden hook.
11. He fishes well who uses a golden hook.
12. 'Tis folly to love fetters, though they be of gold.
13. '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?
14. What is an exalted position to a low fellow but a golden ring in a swine's snout?
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