Silver Quotes - page 2

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. (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
When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud. View quote
Mario Andretti
Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
Gold and silver and sunshine is rising up. View quote
Noel Gallagher
I tend to follow a very nocturnal sort of existence mainly because I don't much care for sunlight. Bright colors of any kind depress me, in fact. And my moods are more or less inversely related to the clarity of the sky, on any given day.... my private motto has always been that behind every silver lining there is a cloud. View quote
Glenn Gould
Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws. View quote
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
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! View quote
Van Morrison
It will not hurt me when I am old, A running tide where moonlight burned Will not sting me like silver snakes; The years will make me sad and cold, It is the happy heart that breaks. View quote
Sara Teasdale
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. (Benjamin Graham)
Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible. View quote
Richie Sambora
All in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn. View quote
E. E. Cummings
I don't want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble. View quote
Don DeLillo
To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint. View quote
Don Marquis
Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver. View quote
Aneurin Bevan
They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation? View quote
Ted Nugent
Genius without education is like silver in the mine. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges. View quote
Ernie Pyle
Sail on Silver Girl, Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine If you need a friend I'm sailing right behind... (Paul Simon)
I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it? View quote
Paul Newman
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. View quote
Rumi
I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind. View quote
Alex Ferguson
There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it. View quote
Condoleezza Rice
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