Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines.
Paracelsus

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.
Cecil Beaton

Most orgies that you go to, I have found, most of it is sad. All that wildness, all those laughs were like the shining silver and gold paper on packages, but there was nothing inside.
Sammy Davis, Jr.

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
Paracelsus

Quicksilver is used for many purposes; without it, neither silver nor brass can be properly gilt.
Marcus V. Pollio

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
Allan Bloom

Silver and ermine and red faces full of port wine.
John Betjeman

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
Euripides

Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.
Germanicus

Someday when peace has returned to this odd world I want to come to London again and stand on a certain balcony on a moonlit night and look down upon the peaceful silver curve of the Thames with its dark bridges.
Ernie Pyle

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.
Richard Parks Bland

The Dove, on silver pinions, winged her peaceful way.
James Montgomery

The horns came riding in like the rainbow masts of silver ships.
Peter S. Beagle

The moon of a bright silver, which dazzles by its shining, illumines a world which surely is no longer ours; for it resembles in nothing what may be seen in other lands.
Pierre Loti

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.
Kahlil Gibran

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
Orlando Gibbons

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
John Aubrey

There is no disgrace in working. There was no silver spoon around at the time I was born.
Anna Held

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
Bernard de Mandeville

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.
Condoleezza Rice