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"Every silver lining has a touch of grey." »Jerry Garcia
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"Red is grey and yellow white
We decide which is right
and which is an illusion." »Moody Blues, "Tuesday Afternoon"
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"Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent." »H. P. Lovecraft, The White Ship
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"Far better is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." »Theodore Roosevelt, The Man in the Arena
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"Hey, what do you think drives all this grey matter up here Electricity. It's brain waves surfing on synaptic junctions. If your radio can go out because of sun spots, why can't your cerebellum It's all a matter of reception and it seems to me these signals are going to get crossed somehow. It's all logical." »Andrew Schneider
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"You never win the silver. You only lose the gold." »Shahrukh Khan
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"Every crowd has a silver lining." »Phineas Taylor Barnum
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"i will never trade gold for silver again." »esther clerici
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"Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth." »Miguel de Cervantes
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"Genius without education is like silver in the mine." »Benjamin Franklin
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"Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate." »Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Caribbean
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"No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold." »Maurice Setter
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"silver and gold are not the only coin virtue too passes current all over the world." »Euripides
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"Hammer the iron that lies on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver." »Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
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"When God asks me "What have you done with the life I gave to you?", I don't want my answer to be "I spent it all chasing silver and Gold."" »Feneau Demesmin
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"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." »John Donne
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"Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life." »Quentin Crisp
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"Though you may yourself abound in treasure, teach your son some handicraft; for a heavy purse of gold and silver may run to waste, but the purse of the artisan?s industry can never get empty." »Sa?di
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"Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back." »Edgar Lee Masters
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"The good extend their loving care To men, however mean or vile; E?en base Ch?nd?las?* dwellings share Th? impartial sunbeam?s silver smile." »The Hitopadesa
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"When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress." »William Shakespeare
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"When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress." »William Shakespeare
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"Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It 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
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"The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior" »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"If you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold, then observe: if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone; but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before." »The Talmud
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"Are you looking for gold, friend? Look around you; anything useful to you is pure gold, pure silver!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"For all the gold and silver stolen and shipped to Spain did not make the Spanish people richer. It gave their kings an edge in the balance of power for a time, a chance to hire more mercenary soldiers for their wars. They ended up losing those wars anyway, and all that was left was a deadly inflation, a starving population, the rich richer, the poor poorer, and a ruined peasant class." »Hans Konig
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"This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,-- This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England." »William Shakespeare
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