Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or spring:
“I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
But a golden nutmeg and a silver pear;”
—Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear (l. 1–2)
“Ae spring brought off her master hale,
But left behind her ain grey tail:”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)