Quotes with quick-silver

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  • Don Marquis Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • P. T. Barnum Every crowd has a silver lining.
    P. T. Barnum
    American showman and circus operator (1810 - 1891)
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  • Aeschylus Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Richard Nixon Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Dwight L. Moody God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Bret Harte Hark! I hear the tramp of thousands, And of armed men the hum; Lo, a nation's hosts have gathered Round the quick alarming drum — Saying, Come Freemen, Come! Ere your heritage be wasted, Said the quick alarming drum.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Oscar Wilde How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Betjeman I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.
    John Betjeman
    English poet, writer, and broadcaster (1906 - 1984)
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  • Ben Affleck I've finally learnt how to say, "No comment". To appear in the tabloids is a real learning curve and a steep one at that. You had better learn quick or you get burnt.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Arne Jacobsen In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • George Eliot In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Francis Beaumont Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Anthony Trollope It has now become the doctrine of a large clan of politicians that political honesty is unnecessary, slow, subversive of a man's interests, and incompatible with quick onward movement.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Calamity Jane It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
    Calamity Jane
    American frontierswoman (1852 - 1903)
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  • Ella Higginson It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; The tear may be forgotten - but the hurt stays in the heart.
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  • Adam Smith Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Jane Austen Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Bill Gates Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating.
    "Why I Hate Spam" by Bill Gates, June 23 2003, www.microsoft.com/presspass/ofnote/06-23wsjspam.mspx
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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