Famous quotes containing the words won and/or silver:
“Great things are won by great dangers.”
—Herodotus (c. 484–424 B.C.)
“A black pall, you know, with a silver cross on it, or R.I.P.—requiescat in pace—you know. That seems to me the most beautiful expression—I like it much better than ‘He is a jolly good fellow,’ which is simply rowdy.”
—Thomas Mann (1875–1955)