Quotes of Silver - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver! ”

- Bible

“ Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate. ”

- Johnny Depp

“ Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. ”

- Unknown

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

- W.S. Gilbert

“ He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Better to get wisdom than gold. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Love is the only gold. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Make new friends but keep the old ones; one is silver and the other's gold. ”

- Unknown

“ So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ His brow was sad; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior! ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ I assure you that the training that you get in a midget, in a sprint car and perhaps in a Silver Crown car is really the kind of experience that makes you into a damn good race driver. ”

- Rodger Ward

“ Tooth decay was a perennial national problem that meant a mouthful of silver for patients, and for dentists a pocketful of gold. ”

- Claudia Wallis

“ Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ 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

“ Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. ”

- Don Marquis

“ Those other gold medals are at home. Plus, I have a gold outfit I want to wear. I didn't bring anything silver or bronze. ”

- Lisa Leslie

“ Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ”

- Langston Hughes

“ Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you? ”

- Rumi

“ I have my gold forever and no one can ever take it away from me. ”

- Picabo Street

“ No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. ”

- Khalil Gibran

“ 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

“ And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is. ”

- John Barbour

“ Speech is silvern, silence is golden. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

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

- W. S. Gilbert

“ And yet he hadde "a thombe of gold" pardee. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ Better to get wisdom than gold. ”

- Bible

“ Whoever has the gold makes all the rules. ”

- Unknown

“ Whoever has the gold makes all the rules. ”

- Unknown

“ It was one of those chilly and empty afternoons in early winter, when the daylight is silver rather than gold and pewter rather than silver. ”

- G. K. Chesterton
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3