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Familiar Quotations

Silver

Keep your head in the clouds. You're the first to know when it rains, and it's easier to see the silver lining.–Anonymous

No words in the English language rhyme with month, orange, silver, or purple.–Anonymous

You may be born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but you need gold-hearted people to make your life more tasty.–Anonymous

I have a Vision of the Future, chum. The workers flats in fields of soya beans tower up like silver pencils, score on score.–John Betjeman

Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.–Miguel de Cervantes

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

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.–Benjamin Franklin

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.–R. Buckminster Fuller

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.–Kahlil Gibran

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.–Donald Robert Perry Marquis

• Preface ix
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Silver 1
• Silver – "Money" 2
• Use in Literature 4
• Silver 4
• Silver – "Above" 16
• Silver – "Acts" 17
• Silver – "Air" 18
• Silver – "Altar" 18
• Silver – "Appearance" 19
• Silver – "Article" 20
• Silver – "Beautiful" 20
• Silver – "Bell" 22
• Silver – "Beyond" 22
• Silver – "Black" 23
• Silver – "Blue" 24
• Silver – "Box" 25
• Silver – "Brass" 26
• Silver – "Broke" 27
• Silver – "Bronze" 27
• Silver – "Carry" 28
• Silver – "Case" 29
• Silver – "Child" 30
• Silver – "Clear" 30
• Silver – "Close" 31
• Silver – "Clothing" 32
• Silver – "Cloud" 32
• Silver – "Coin" 33
• Silver – "Copper" 35
• Silver – "Country" 35
• Silver – "Covered" 36
• Silver – "Dark" 37
• Silver – "Day" 38
• Silver – "Deepest" 40
• Silver – "Dishes" 41
• Silver – "Doctor" 41
• Silver – "Dollar" 42
• Silver – "Done" 43
• Silver – "Drew" 43
• Silver – "Dressed" 44
• Silver – "Drinking" 45
• Silver – "Dust" 46
• Silver – "Edge" 46
• Silver – "Effects" 47
• Silver – "Evening" 48
• Silver – "Everywhere" 49
• Silver – "Exchange" 49
• Silver – "Eye" 50
• Silver – "Family" 51
• Silver – "Far" 52
• Silver – "Father" 52
• Silver – "Feet" 53
• Silver – "Few" 54
• Silver – "Fire" 55
• Silver – "Flowers" 55
• Silver – "Form" 56
• Silver – "Found" 57
• Silver – "Full" 59
• Silver – "Glass" 60
• Silver – "Gleamed" 61
• Silver – "Go" 62
• Silver – "Golden" 63
• Silver – "Gone" 64
• Silver – "Great" 64
• Silver – "Green" 67
• Silver – "Hair" 68
• Silver – "Hand" 70
• Silver – "Hanging" 72
• Silver – "Having" 73
• Silver – "Head" 74
• Silver – "Heard" 75
• Silver – "Heavy" 76
• Silver – "Hills" 76
• Silver – "Holder" 77
• Silver – "House" 78
• Silver – "Images" 78
• Silver – "Iron" 78
• Silver – "Jewels" 79
• Silver – "Kept" 80
• Silver – "Lady" 80
• Silver – "Laid" 81
• Silver – "Lamp" 82
• Silver – "Larger" 82
• Silver – "Laugh" 84
• Silver – "Leading" 85
• Silver – "Left" 85
• Silver – "Lights" 87
• Silver – "Line" 87
• Silver – "Little" 88
• Silver – "Locks" 91
• Silver – "Looked" 92
• Silver – "Loose" 94
• Silver – "Lying" 94
• Silver – "Made" 95
• Silver – "Man" 98
• Silver – "Mass" 100
• Silver – "Mean" 101
• Silver – "Metal" 101
• Silver – "Mine" 102
• Silver – "Misty" 103
• Silver – "Moon" 104
• Silver – "Moonlight" 107
• Silver – "Morning" 108
• Silver – "Mounted" 109
• Silver – "Near" 110
• Silver – "Night" 110
• Silver – "Note" 112
• Silver – "Nothing" 112
• Silver – "Old" 113
• Silver – "Once" 115
• Silver – "Open" 116
• Silver – "Order" 117
• Silver – "Ornaments" 118
• Silver – "Others" 119
• Silver – "Palace" 119
• Silver – "Paper" 120
• Silver – "Part" 121
• Silver – "Pearls" 122
• Silver – "Pieces" 122
• Silver – "Place" 123
• Silver – "Played" 125
• Silver – "Pockets" 126
• Silver – "Pointed" 126
• Silver – "Poorer" 127
• Silver – "Present" 127
• Silver – "Ready" 128
• Silver – "Rest" 129
• Silver – "Rich" 130
• Silver – "River" 130
• Silver – "Robe" 131
• Silver – "Room" 132
• Silver – "Rose" 133
• Silver – "Round" 134
• Silver – "Sea" 135
• Silver – "Second" 136
• Silver – "Servant" 136
• Silver – "Service" 136
• Silver – "Shall" 137
• Silver – "Shining" 137
• Silver – "Shoes" 138
• Silver – "Showed" 139
• Silver – "Side" 139
• Silver – "Sitting" 141
• Silver – "Skin" 142
• Silver – "Sky" 143
• Silver – "Solution" 143
• Silver – "Soon" 144
• Silver – "Sound" 144
• Silver – "Spoons" 145
• Silver – "Stand" 146
• Silver – "Stars" 147
• Silver – "Stone" 147
• Silver – "Stranger" 149
• Silver – "Stream" 149
• Silver – "Sun" 150
• Silver – "Sweet" 151
• Silver – "Table" 152
• Silver – "Tall" 154
• Silver – "Ten" 154
• Silver – "Things" 155
• Silver – "Thus" 156
• Silver – "Touched" 156
• Silver – "Tree" 157
• Silver – "Use" 158
• Silver – "Valuable" 160
• Silver – "Vessels" 161
• Silver – "Voice" 161
• Silver – "Walk" 162
• Silver – "Walls" 163
• Silver – "Water" 164
• Silver – "Wear" 165
• Silver – "Western" 167
• Silver – "Window" 167
• Silver – "Wish" 168
• Silver – "Women" 168
• Silver – "Word" 169
• Silver – "Work" 170
• Silver – "Yellow" 170
• Silver – "Young" 171
• Nonfiction Usage 173
• Lyrical Usage 173
• Script Usage 173
• Spoken Usage 175
• Presidential Usage 175
• Song Title Usage 176
• Bible Usage 176
• Qur'anic Usage 192
• Journalism Usage 192
• Legal Usage 220
• Governmental Usage 226
• Patent Usage 230
• Encyclopedic Usage 294
• Lexicographic Usage 404
• Index 528