It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mom wears a lot of gold.
We don't find it tough to sell gold; people love to buy jewelry. The only way to make your wife, sister or lover happy is to give them something that they love.
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
My mother is a beauty.
I inherited my love of gold jewellery from my grandmother.
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.
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