Bag it Up
Dig Out Your Soul (2008)
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate”
“You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.”
From interview with Malavika Sangghvi
“Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.”
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Queer Feet
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
“And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.”
Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]
“Gold is precious because it resembles the sun. Silver has the light of the moon.”
the blind man at the Ölfus River
Íslandsklukkan (Iceland's Bell) (1946), Part I: Iceland's Bell
Source: Betsy-Tacy and Tib (1941), p. 4
“He was all silver and ashes, not like Will's strong colors of blue and black and gold.”
Source: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel
“Too many people miss the silver lining because they're expecting gold.”
“they possess most gold and silver, by which war, like everything else, flourishes.”
Book VI, 6.34; "they have abundance of gold and silver, and these make war, like other things, go smoothly" ( trans. http://www.classicpersuasion.org/pw/thucydides/jthucbk6rv2.htm Benjamin Jowett)
History of the Peloponnesian War, Book VI
“For such a sovereign joy, a prize so high
No silver and no gold could ever buy.”
Ch'un almo gaudio, un così gran contento
Non potrebbe comprare oro né argento.
Canto XXXVIII, stanza 2 (tr. W. S. Rose)
Orlando Furioso (1532)
