61 Alloy Quotes
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Famous Alloy Quotes
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy. — Samuel Butler
A metallurgist is someone who can look at a platinum blonde and tell whether she's virgin material or a common ore. — Brian Johnson
As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity. — Ovid
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan. — Paracelsus
No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy. — William Shakespeare
The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire. — Richard M. Nixon
A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but Allah tests the heart. — Moroccan Proverbs
Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold. — William Morley Punshon
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion. — Antisthenes
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute. — Omar Khayyam
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity. — Seneca
There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be! — Paul Revere
All that glisters is not gold. — Common
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. — Solomon
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world. — Euripides
Short Alloy Quotes
- If you are wise, look after your house; love your wife without alloy. — Egyptian Proverbs
- A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer. — Don Marquis
- I was quite unable to make any white metal alloy hard enough to be made into powder by my machinery. — Henry Bessemer
- We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it. — Austin O'Malley
Aluminum Quotes
Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian." You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him. Those are vegetables. — Rick Riordan
They've got plastic Christmas trees now. They're hard to tell from the real aluminum ones. — Milton Berle
The Boy with Nails in His Eyes put up his aluminum tree. It looked pretty strange because he couldn't really see. — Tim Burton
We must expect the discovery of many as yet unknown elements-for example, elements analogous to aluminum and silicon- whose atomic weight would be between 65 and 75. — Dmitri Mendeleev
We bombarded aluminum with alpha rays … then after a certain period of irradiation, we removed the source of alpha rays. We now observed that the sheet of aluminum continued to emit positive electrons over a period of several minutes. — Frederic Joliot-Curie
Why go to a church to worship God? A church is man made. God never said, "And let there be aluminum siding." Climbing a tree to talk to God sounds like a better idea since only God can make a tree. And if that tree's on a golf course, all the better. — Tim Allen
One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones." — Daniel Clowes
My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store. — Maiara Walsh
Cooking Tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out. — Nicole Hollander
And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense. — John Sexton
People Writing About Alloy
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Samuel Butler |
266 | 1844 |
 Brian Johnson |
28 | 325 |
 Ovid |
714 | 3612 |
 Paracelsus |
85 | 1830 |
 William Shakespeare |
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 Richard M. Nixon |
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More Alloy Quotes
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. — Dan Gable
After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask! — Obafemi Awolowo
Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth. I dealt with the Ding an Sich, the substance behind the shadow, weaving powerful concepts, similes, and connections the way an engineer would raise a skyscraper with the whiskered-alloy skeleton being constructed long before the glass and plastic and chromaluminum appears. — Dan Simmons
Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy. — George Macdonald
False happiness is like false money; it passes for a time as well as the true, and serves some ordinary occasions; but when it is brought to the touch, we find the lightness and alloy, and feel the loss. — Alexander Pope
I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. — George Washington
The journalist's first allegiance is to those who receive the work. Although there is no doubt that many owners and business managers of news organizations also have a deep allegiance to the public, that allegiance is necessarily alloyed with their concern for their own point of view or for the bottom line. — Bill Kovach
The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade. — Anthony Trollope
If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Truth comes to us from the past, as gold is washed down from the mountains of Sierra Nevada, in minute but precious particles, and intermixed with infinite alloy, the debris of the centuries. — Christian Nestell Bovee
It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it. — Karl Marx
All earthly suns have their spots: the fair world itself has its wilderness. We cannot love the whole of most lovely things: but Christ Jesus is gold without alloy-light without darkness- glory without cloud. 'Yea, He is altogether lovely.' — Charles Spurgeon
Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal. — Samuel Butler
The job's always the same. It involves helping to tell the story and creating an alloy between character and story that serves the film. — Harrison Ford
[The World Trade Center and the Pentagon] have drawn, like gathered lightning, the anger of the enemies of civilization. Those enemies are always out there.... Americans are slow to anger but mighty when angry, and their proper anger now should be alloyed with pride. They are targets because of their virtues-principally democracy, and loyalty to those nations which, like Israel, are embattled salients of our virtues in a still-dangerous world. — George Will
The declaration of rights [Bill of Rights] is, like all other human blessings, alloyed with some inconveniences and not accomplishing fully its object. But the good in this instance vastly outweighs the evil. — Thomas Jefferson
We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce. — Thomas Jefferson
Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, make the natural colours blush. Saccharin, which is hundreds of times sweeter than sugar, is a purely artificial substance. New explosives, drugs, alloys, photographic substances, essences, scents, solvents, and detergents are being poured out in a continuous stream. — Frederick Soddy
I live in the angle of a leaden wall, into whose composition was poured a little alloy of bell-metal. Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. It is the noise of my contemporaries. — Henry David Thoreau
No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy. — Benjamin Haydon
I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining. — Sylvia Townsend Warner
No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss and bale, of the things that help with the things that hurt, so dangling before us forever that bright hard medal, of so strange an alloy, one face of which is somebody's right and ease and the other somebody's pain and wrong. — Henry James
Blessed loves! how happy they have made us on the earth; what will they be when they have deepened through ages, with no alloy of envy or suspicion or selfishness or sorrow? — Randolph Sinks Foster
With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the ‘other’ side, or the inside, those sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations from them to the mind for consideration. — Steve Paxton
The creative musician ... is ... the radio receiver, not the broadcasting station. His personal discipline is to improve the quality of the components, the transistors, the speakers, the alloys in the receiver itself, but never to concern himself overmuch with putting out the program. The program is there; all he has to do is receive it as far as possible. — Robert Fripp
But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the choice must always be made, if not of the lesser evil, at least of the GREATER, not the PERFECT good; and that in every political institution, a power to advance the public happiness, involves a discretion which may be misapplied and abused. — James Madison
Mr. Smith yelled at the doctor, What have you done to my boy? He's not flesh and blood, he's aluminum alloy!" The doctor said gently, What I'm going to say will sound pretty wild. But you're not the father of this strange looking child. You see, there still is some question about the child's gender, but we think that its father is a microwave blender. — Tim Burton
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