Quotes with silver

  • One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
  • I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.
  • 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.
  • There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
  • Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
  • 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.
  • Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
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  • Oscar Wilde Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Alec Guinness A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
    Alec Guinness
    English actor (1914 - 2000)
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  • Alfred Marshall Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
    Alfred Marshall
     
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  • John Donne Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Bob Marley Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Benjamin Graham Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
    World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Robert Browning Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Edward Dahlberg One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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