Quotes of Alloy - somelinesforyou

“ Who can tell what metals the gods use in forging the subtle bond which we call sympathy, which we might as well call love. ”

- Kate Chopin

“ That, you were made of, is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found; by being ever kept, it is ever lost: 'tis too cold a companion; away with it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can — No, not the hangman's axe — bear half the keenness Of thy sharp envy. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made. ”

- bacon

“ All men of one metal, but not in one mold. ”

- John Lyly

“ Work is the open sesame of every portal, the great equalizer in the world, the true philosopher's stone which transmutes all the base metal of humanity into gold. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ For when did friendship take A breed for barren metal of his friend? - The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The combination of a sharp rebound in US equities, a slightly weaker dollar and strong Chinese data seems to have been enough to underpin the metals. ”

- William Adams

“ So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and, vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. ”

- Russell Wayne Baker

“ There are not enough police or metal detectors in the world to solve this,... That is the point we are trying to make now. We need to deal with more relationships. ”

- Rod Paige

“ I didn't want o do metal work and get my hands all nicked up and be around guys. So I took drama because there were a lot of girls. ”

- Michael J. Fox

“ Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat. ”

- Jack Handey

“ Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds, At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. ”

- John Milton

“ A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been. ”

- Billy Corgan

“ As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways. ”

- Alfred Russel Wallace

“ When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter. ”

- W. S. Gilbert

“ It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc. ”

- Roger Maris

“ Market reactions will initially reflect some caution, especially in the area of base metals demand. ”

- Tom Murphy

“ I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous. He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it. ”

- Confucius

“ During school, there's no mixing. ”

- Dwight Morrow

“ I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking. ”

- Edward Hopper

“ Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ We are very pleased with our results for the quarter, achieved as they were in a challenging economic climate, and encouraged by the turnaround we enjoyed at several of our key businesses. ”

- Rupert Murdoch

“ The way to solve all the problems is to quit making metal clubs and go back to wood, but I say that with tongue in cheek. ”

- Jack Nicklaus

“ If these railroad crossings were fixed right with metal devices that come down and block traffic, people couldn't pull up and get killed. ”

- Ralph Richardson

“ I was very limited in what I could do with flying saucers, because they're just a metal disc. I had to try and put character in as if they were intelligently guided. ”

- Ray Harryhausen

“ If by fire Of sooty coal th' empiric alchymist Can turn, or holds it possible to turn, Metals of drossiest ore to perfect gold. ”

- John Milton

“ A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. ”

- Dan Gable

“ I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. ”

- William Wycherley
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