Silver Issue

Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or issue:

    “Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or
    the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the
    cistern.
    Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit
    shall return unto God who gave it.
    Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, all is vanity.”
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. XII, 6–7)

    “The issue is privacy. Why is the decision by a woman to sleep with a man she has just met in a bar a private one, and the decision to sleep with the same man for $100 subject to criminal penalties?”
    —Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)