Silver



 is a with the symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the  h₂erǵ: "shiny" or "white") and  47. A soft, white, lustrous, it exhibits the highest , , and of any.

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 ).


 * 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
 * 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.
 *  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.