Quote Of The Day!

[Norvic]

"Gold brings out the best in Mans ingenuity, the worst in his Nature"  another oldie but a gem or is that a nugget............

Watched a TV documentary many years back (Peachs Gold) it was claimed in this, that the deliberate adding of impurities to the gold coins (they were running out of gold) to pay the Mercenaries of the Roman Empire Era, was the key that brought down that Empire, which lead to the British Empires tradition of always having a "commoner" present to witness the purity when the first of a new gold coin series is struck.

Idahogold, I have never experienced snow, seen it on the mountain tops at a distance. With the heat in the part of OZ I live in comes the Monsoon rains that see us house bound for a couple of months each year, something I believe the snow does to you folks. What I believe you folks call Cabin Fever, we (NQ OZ) refer to as Mango Fever, tis the time of year the tropical fruit mango is harvested. The parrots arrive in there millions to get into the ripe fruit and you will see an odd one fall out of his tree and stagger around on the ground, because he has been feeding on a part fermented mango. Tis a funny sight.

[idahogold]

Norvic,

You got it right! Right Now! I've got a Very Bad Case of Mango  more like Double"....

make that Triple  Mango!

Cheers, IG

 

[Randy Lunn]

"In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. . . . The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth."

--Alan Greenspan, 1966

[whitebutler]

After prospecting with many different people I've come to one saying and I personally love it. 

 "Shut up and dig!".

John

 

[GB_Amateur]

Of the various things I've attempted in my life, Rudyard Kiplings poem 'If' has applied to every one of them.  My favorite line in that poem (of which every line is powerful):

If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same

[Sourdough Scott]

I too, love the poems of Robert W. Service . The summer nights, at my grandfather's claim on West Nelson creek. He would recite the poems from memory by the glowing warmth of the campfire .  The flickering fire, the creek flowing, were the only other sounds to be heard, as he spoke. Those were some wonderful memories that I hold dear. 

[klunker]

 Sourdough Scott had found a treasure and I'll bet he didn't know it until it was gone.

[mn90403]

You caused me to find a quote:

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.

Leo Tolstoy

 

A metal detector attempts to find gold by ignoring all that is not gold.  That ... like finding truth is very hard to do.

 

[Jim Hemmingway]

My quote of the day is commonplace and simple.

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained."

Jim.