Silver

For for the color, see Silver (color).

Silver.

Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European h₂erǵ: "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal.

Quotes

• Just for a handful of silver he left us,
  Just for a riband to stick in his coat.–
  Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us,
  Lost all others she sets us devote;
  They with the gold 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 Marson William Wordsworth, Infobase Publishing, 2009, p. 15

• It is silver that can pride itself as the overlay of the gods.
  • Debate between the Date Palm and the Tamarisk (mid to late 3rd millennium BCE).

• It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
  • Mahatma Gandhi in:Spiritual Wealth Management: The Abundance Bible and Prosperity Manifesto, Balboa Press, 1 September 2012, p. 114

• The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
  • Khalil Gibran in:The Khalil Gibran Megapack: 43 Classic Works, Wildside Press LLC, 10 November 2013, p. 132

• After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
  • Isaac D'Israeli, in The 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. Rountree Tree,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 the Canalettos go.
  • Harold Macmillan in Children of Light: How Electricity Changed Britain Forever, Gavin Weightman, Atlantic Books Ltd, 1 January 2011, p. 234
  • Speech by Lord Stockton at the Riyal Overseas Club, as a criticism of privatization and the selling of profitable state- owned enterprises.

• If a man bring to London an ounce of Silver out of the Earth in Peru in the same time that he can produce a bushel of Corn, then one is the natural price of the other.
  • Sir William Petty in: John Ramsay McCulloch The Literature of Political Economy: A Classified Catalogue of Select Publications in the Different Departments of that Science, with Historical, Critical and Biographical Notices:Treatise ofTaxes and Cintributions, Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1845, p. 318

• Hi-ho, Silver, away!
  • Catchphrase of The Lone Ranger

• Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver.
  • Solomon’s wise sayings in:The Moravian magazine, a monthly journal of the Church of the United brethren, 1854, p. 23

Bible

The Bible on Wikisource.

• Silver and gold have In one; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.
  • Acts of the Apostles 3:6, KJV.

• A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
  • Book of Proverbs 25:11-13, KJV.

• And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.
  • Book of Zechariah 11:12, KJV.

• The sayings of the Lord are pure; they are like silver refined in an earthen furnace, purified seven times.
  • David, in Book of Psalms 12:6, KJV.