Buying Silver Quotes & Sayings

Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver. — Karl Marx

Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man ... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God! — Victor Hugo

Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people. — Tony Judt

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it. — Henry David Thoreau

The Clintons are very close with everybody on the Democratic side. — Martin O'Malley

When people become frightened, they look for things of real value. They will go to monetary metals, gold and silver, and they will buy other things, such as buying property. But no matter what we have, whether we have our gold coins or we have our property, if we have an authoritarian government, that is our greatest threat. So, I would like to think that there is no perfect protection, other than shrinking the size and scope and power of government, so that we can be left alone and take care of ourselves. — Ron Paul

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens. — Christopher Hitchens

Amon's dancing was like a mashup of Elvis and the Chippendales. — Colleen Houck

You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness. — Neal A. Maxwell

Slavery, that was a kind of alchemy for such White folk, or so they reckoned. They calculated a way of turning each bead of a Black man's sweat into gold and each moan of despair from a Black woman's throat into the sweet clear sound of a silver coin ringing on the money-changer's table. There was buying and selling of souls in that place. Yet there was nary a one of them who understood the whole price they paid for owning other folk. — Orson Scott Card

What made medicine fool people for so long was that its successes were prominently displayed and its mistakes (literally) buried. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Necessity with the illusion of meaning would be the highest achievement for man; but when it becomes trivial there is no sense to one's life. — Ernest Becker

In 1990, I was in 'The Three Sisters' at the Royal Court and won the Clarence Derwent award for my supporting role as Natasha - the prize was £100. I could have paid the gas bill, but I ended up buying a porcelain and silver Bavarian coffee set in an antiques shop in Penzance. — Lesley Manville

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ... — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie