# Silver

    For for the color, see Silver (color).
Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag (from the Latin argentum, derived from the Proto-Indo-European h₂erǵ: "shiny" or "white") and atomic number 47. A soft, white, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal.

## 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 3rd millennium BCE).
* 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

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* 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.
** Book of Zechariah 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.