Silver Quotes

• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Teacher, Atheist

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.102, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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  It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Fitness, Real

  "Spiritual Wealth Management: The Abundance Bible and Prosperity Manifesto". Book by George S. Mentz (p. 114), September 1, 2012.

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• Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Men, Small Changes, Society

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• One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sweet, Heart, Greed

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• Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Gold, Gold And Silver, Turns

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• Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.

  Alan Kay

  Gold, Weight, Outlook

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• For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

  Martin Luther

  Nature, Tree, Earth Day

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• I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.

  Sylvia Plath

  Preconceptions

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.333, Faber & Faber

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• Frankly, I was born with a silver spoon.

  Mitt Romney

  Spoons, Born, Wooden Spoons

  "Mitt Romney: ‘95% Of Life Is Set Up For You If You’re Born In This Country’" By Ryan Grim, Arthur Delaney, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

  Mark Twain

  Doubt, Reputation, Mark

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.13, 1st World Publishing

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• I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.

  Matthew Henry

  Thinking, Soul, Mountain

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• You never win the silver, you only lose the gold

  Shahrukh Khan

  Winning, Gold, Loses

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Silver, gold - I don't discriminate! I like sparkly things.

  Charlaine Harris

  Gold

  "Charlaine Harris on True Blood and Vampires That Sparkle". Interview with John Williford, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspirational, God, Dedication

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• Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;
  Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,
  And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.
  All men make faults.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Moon, Men

  Sonnet 35

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• If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds me to keep on trying.

  Matthew Quick

  Stay Strong, Block, Clouds

  Matthew Quick (2010). “The Silver Linings Playbook”, p.15, Pan Macmillan

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• Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Women, Apples, Golden

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.324, Ravenio Books

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• All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

  Paul Caponigro

  Dream, Photographer, Locked

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• Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Dark, Reflection

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.208, Wordsworth Editions

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• Silver is of less value than gold, gold than virtue.

  Horace

  Gold, Virtue, Values

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• The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

  Oswald Chambers

  Shining, Tears, Tests

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.305, Discovery House

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

  Don Marquis

  Funny, Hope, Witty

  Don Marquis (2012). “Archy and Mehitabel”, p.54, Anchor

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• I opened up to you and you judge me

  Matthew Quick

  Judging, Up To You, Judge Me

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• The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Gold, Treasure

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.96

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• Calm on the listening ear of night Come Heaven's melodious strains, Where wild Judea stretches far Her silver-mantled plains.

  Edmund Sears

  Night, Listening Ear, Heaven

  Edmund Hamilton Sears (1885). “That Glorious Song of Old”

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