Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.– Found the onegift of whichfortune bereft us, Lost all others she sets us devote; They with thegold to give doled him our silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed.
Robert Browning In Dramatic Romances and Lyrics,'The Lost Leader'. Quoted in: Janyce MarsonWilliam Wordsworth, Infobase Publishing, 2009, p. 15
It is silver that can pride itself as the overlay of the gods.
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
Isaac D'Israeli, inThe Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), Ch. III
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 in: Jr. William F. RountreeTree,Koehler Books, 2011, p. 10
Georgian silver coin - First of all the Georgian Silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the salon. Then the Canalettos go. -Harold Macmillan.
First of all the Georgian Silver goes, and then all that nice furniture that used to be in the salon. Then theCanalettos go.
Speech byLord Stockton at the Riyal Overseas Club, as a criticism of privatization and the selling of profitable state- owned enterprises.
If a man bring toLondon an ounce of Silver out of theEarth inPeru in the same time that he can produce a bushel ofCorn, then one is the natural price of the other.
