#silver

Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power. ↗

— Jean Paul

#attracts #beauty #beside #gold #like

Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels. ↗

— Charles Perrault

#clothes #godmother #gold #her #into

Don't treat your heart like an action figure wrapped in plastic and never used. And don't try to give me that nerd argument that your heart is a 'Batman' with a limited-edition silver bat-erang and therefore if it stays in its original packing it increases in value. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#action figure #argument #batman #figure #give

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

— Marcus V. Pollio

#gilt #many #neither #nor #properly

You don't need a silver fork to eat good food. ↗

— Paul Prudhomme

#eat #fork #good #good food #need

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

#balcony #bridges #certain #come #curve

Gold and silver are no doubt subject to fluctuations, from the discovery of new and more abundant mines; but such discoveries are rare, and their effects, though powerful, are limited to periods of comparatively short duration. ↗

— David Ricardo

#comparatively #discoveries #discovery #doubt #duration

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#available #because #carry #commercial #far

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#gold #health #pieces #real #silver

I can feel a cold coming on right now, so I am going to start using collodial silver again. ↗

— Stan Jones

#am #cold #coming #feel #going