"Virtue and learning, like gold, have their intrinsic……" — Lord Chesterfield

More Brass Quotes

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• Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away. — Thomas Beecham
• I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the… — George Clooney
• Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. — William Shakespeare
• In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some… — Mark Twain
• Man, I did love this game. I'd have played for food money... I used to love traveling on the trains… — Ray Liotta
• I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded… — Betty Smith
• At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from… — Jesse L. Greenstein
• If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them… — John Cotton
• Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,… — Unknown Author
• Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold. — Lord Chesterfield
• It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected… — Stephen Colbert

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