Silver Quotes

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. (Euripides)
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold... View quote
Bob Marley
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. View quote
Langston Hughes
Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek? View quote
Tracey Ullman
Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. View quote
Alfred Marshall
All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens. View quote
Willa Cather
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver. View quote
Karl Marx
The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands. View quote
Pierre Loti
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright. View quote
Ben Jonson
Every crowd has a silver lining. View quote
P. T. Barnum
Guess now who holds thee' - Death', I said, but there The silver answer rang, . . . Not Death, but Love.' (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat. View quote
Robert Browning
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl. View quote
William Blake
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue. View quote
Horace
A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, And closed them beneath the kisses of night. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
You never win the silver. You only lose the gold. View quote
Shahrukh Khan
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. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food. View quote
Paul Prudhomme
The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through. (Ayn Rand)
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. View quote
John Donne
There is silver blue, sky blue and thunder blue. Every colour holds within it a soul, which makes me happy or repels me, and which acts as a stimulus. To a person who has no art in him, colours are colours, tones tones...and that is all. All their consequences for the human spirit, which range between heaven to hell, just go unnoticed. View quote
Emil Nolde
It has therefore been justly observed that however honestly the coin of a country may conform to its standard, money made of gold and silver is still liable to fluctuations in value, not only to accidental, and temporary, but to permanent and natural variations, in the same manner as other commodities. View quote
David Ricardo
Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. View quote
David Ricardo