“Every silver lining obscures a cloud.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Source: Dead Beat
“Every silver lining obscures a cloud.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Mario Andretti (1940) Italian-American racing driver
Super Speedway. Dir. Stephen Low. Perf. Mario Andretti, Michael Andretti. DVD. Openwheel Productions Inc., 1997..
1990s
“DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Source: The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works
Lena Guilbert Ford (1870–1918) American lyricist, poet
Song Keep the Home Fires Burning (1914)
“Every crowd has a silver lining.”
P.T. Barnum (1810–1891) American showman and businessman
The first appearance of this quote in print was in the July 1908 issue http://books.google.com/books?id=3StKAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Every+crowd+has+a+silver+lining%22&pg=PA423#v=onepage of the journal Profitable Advertising under the heading "Modernized Maxims." It next appeared in the June 1911 issue http://books.google.com/books?id=iKZHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Every+crowd+has+a+silver+lining%22&pg=PA32#v=onepage of The Philistine where Elbert Hubbard labeled it: "motto for a hotel-keeper." In the 1920s http://books.google.com/books?id=FBrnAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Every+crowd+has+a+silver+lining%22&pg=PA2#v=onepage, it was published with the label: "Pickpocket's motto." The attribution to P.T. Barnum didn't appear in print until a 1934 article http://books.google.com/books?id=HSIYAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Every+crowd+has+a+silver+lining%22&pg=PA14#v=onepage in Reader's Digest. <br class="br">Misattributed
James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author
As for “Time heals all wounds” and “Whenever God closes a door, He opens a window”—they, too, make me gloat unconscionably.
Source: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 1 (p. 13; spoken by the Devil)
Deng Feng-Zhou (1949) Chinese poet, Local history writer, Taoist Neidan academics and Environmentalist.
(zh-TW) 枷鎖纏身困擾滋,紅塵瑣事縛如絲。
勸君滌慮尋方向,可待雲開日照時。
"Struggling" (奮發)
Source: Deng Feng-Zhou, "Deng Feng-Zhou Classical Chinese Poetry Anthology". Volume 6, Tainan, 2018: 82.
“When I believe a stone is a stone and a cloud a cloud, I am in a state of unconsciousness.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Cuando creo que la piedra es piedra, que la nube es nube, me hallo es un estado de inconsciencia.
Voces (1943)