Silver famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.
-- Al Capone -
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
-- Alan Kay -
A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
-- Alec Guinness -
No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.
-- Alexander Pope -
Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin.
-- Alyson Noel -
DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
To sell oneself for thirty pieces of silver is an honest transaction; but to sell oneself to one s own conscience is to abandon mankind.
-- Arthur Koestler -
The silver-leaved birch retains in its old age a soft bark; there are some such men.
-- Berthold Auerbach -
What we don't know is about Jeb Bush and cocaine. But we do know that he did once had his brother Florida on a silver platter.
-- Bill Maher -
This is what I believe to be true. You have to do everything you can. You have to work your hardest. And if you do, if you stay positive, then you have a shot at a silver lining.
-- Bradley Cooper -
It's a truism in technological development that no silver lining comes without its cloud.
-- Bruce Sterling -
You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair
-- C. S. Lewis -
N.Y. Chamber of Commerce Urges Passage of Silver For War Use.
-- Caryl Parker Haskins -
Our happiness is certainly mixed in with the tragedies of life. You have to find the lemonade. You have to find the silver lining in the middle of everything that happens in life.
-- Chandra Wilson -
Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things.
-- Charlaine Harris -
Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?
-- Dale Carnegie -
I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.
-- Don DeLillo -
Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.
-- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf -
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
-- Georg Trakl -
You have to earn money the hard way. Because no-one will serve it up to you on a silver platter.
-- Gordon Wu -
Civilization is only savagery silver-gilt.
-- H. Rider Haggard -
At the time of the Silver Jubilee, I was a grumpy anti-monarchist. I didn't celebrate and was appalled by the celebrations. In my idiocy, I missed out! I feel completely differently now compared with that time.
-- Helen Mirren -
The Church of the Apostles was a Church of the poor; of silver and gold it had none.
-- Henry Parry Liddon -
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.
-- Horace -
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]
-- Horace -
You wouldn't cancel your insurance policy in the middle of a hurricane, and you shouldn't sell silver when it takes a tumble. Like any insurance, silver's value will pay out over time, not day by day.
-- Howard Ruff -
Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
-- J. C. Ryle -
Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.
-- Jane Urquhart -
I believe that there's a cloud for every silver lining,' I said.
-- Jim Butcher -
The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
-- John Aubrey -
Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.
-- John Buchanan Robinson -
Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?
-- John Milton -
His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.
-- John Philpot Curran -
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.
-- Karl Marx -
Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it.
-- Katarina Witt -
God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels
-- Kathryn Kuhlman -
There are lots of things in the folklore, like they can only be killed by a silver bullet, that don't realistically work, if you're trying to say they have existed for hundreds of years, unknown.
-- Kelley Armstrong -
The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.
-- Matthew Quick -
There will always be a part of me that is dirty and sloppy, but I like that, just like all the other parts of myself.
-- Matthew Quick -
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again. With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.
-- Meredith Willson -
When you are ready to move on or if you come to peace with pain, you’ll find a silver lining.
-- Miley Cyrus -
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
-- Neil Armstrong -
The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
-- Orlando Gibbons -
Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
-- Paracelsus -
Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.
-- Patricia C. Wrede -
All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.
-- Paul Caponigro -
We're on a collision course for disaster. All we can do, all your viewers can do is brace for impactBuy gold. Buy silver Get as far away as you can from U.S. currency and the U.S. economy.
-- Peter Schiff -
I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.
-- Pope Francis -
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
-- Richard P. Bland -
'Silver Spoons' was great memories - absolutely the best.
-- Ricky Schroder -
There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.
-- Robert Bridges -
Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
-- Robert Herrick -
You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring
-- Sandra Lee -
Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt
-- Sean Paul -
You never win the silver, you only lose the gold
-- Shahrukh Khan -
When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?
-- Sophie Swetchine -
Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn
-- Stephen Vincent Benet -
I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.
-- Syd Barrett -
It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.
-- Theophile Gautier -
I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
-- Van Morrison -
You may have crap that wants to drag you down, but if you really like what you're doing, then there's always a silver lining.
-- Vince Neil -
Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon.
-- Walter de La Mare -
The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.
-- Flannery O'Connor -
Not only did Judas sell Jesus for thirty pieces of silver; he also sold himself.
-- George H Morrison -
Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.
-- George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham -
Place 5 percent to 10 percent of your total assets in gold bullion and selected gold and silver coins. No one knows with certainty whether the coming depression will be inflationary or deflationary.
-- James Dale Davidson -
I 'd rather be handsome than homely; I 'd rather be youthful than old; If I can't have a bushel of silver I'll do with a barrel of gold.
-- James Jeffrey Roche -
I love to mix colors. For me, I don't have a rule, like "you can't wear silver and gold." You can mix it.
-- Olivia Palermo -
There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!
-- Paul Revere -
I would definitely bring silver into your holiday decor.
-- Emily Henderson
