Quotes About Brass

But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."

I have a brass bed that's very 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks.' I got it on eBay. It's from the early 1900s.

Perhaps talk of counters turned the boy's thoughts to his father's glove shop. His father would have accounted for all his transactions using the tokens. They were hard and round and very thin, made of copper or brass. There were counters for one pair of gloves, and for two pairs, and three and four and five. But there was no counter for zero. No counters existed for all the sales that his father did not close.

The polished brass is mirror of the form, wine of the soul.

I remember that I started playing brass - not so much because I had a calling but because I thought it looked cool.

You should smile at that,' he said. 'There is a Yiddish word, schlemiel, a man who falls over everything, who buys brass for gold. There should be a goy word for the elegant schlemiel, who has been born to handle gold but never knows it from brass and calls it gold with the weight of authority, who falls over everything but does it with such assurance that the fall is taken for a curtsy.

A man can well afford to be as bold as brass, my good fellow, when he gets gold in exchange!

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

I'm in a secret underground hideout of a group of monster hunters, filled with magical totems, brass monkeys that move and enough firepower to take over a small country.

In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.

The tens of thousands of fans posting to online forums have more control over what happens next than any of the upper brass.

The building was crowded with men and women packing stuff into boxes and bags, leather stuff, nylon, canvas, and rubber stuff, with brass rings and silver chains, steel buckles and studded straps. Elephant stuff.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water.

In New Orleans, people are still influenced by one another. You got these bands that play every week on Frenchmen Street, and on their breaks, they might go see the reggae band that's right next door. You might get the musicians from the reggae band to sit in with the brass musicians. Everyone is having fun.

Of current British stuff, 'Brass Eye' was one of my favorite shows.

Never look encouragingly at the brass, except with a brief glance to give an important cue.

Then I understood: The brass ball was still stuck in his empty eye socket.

Anything is possible on Fasnacht, Art said. Let's go find the guggenmusikplatz, I like those bands. Guggenmusik? You know, brass bands. They're mostly school band reunions, and they play really loudly and out of tune. On purpose? Yes. It's a Swiss thing, I think. On festival night you're supposed to go wild, so for them that means playing your French horn out of tune!

Enthusiasm is as brittle as crystal, but Common Sense is durable as brass.

I play trumpet. And I took all the music courses in college, so I can also play the string instruments, keyboard, the brass and woodwinds - but only well enough to teach them. If you put a violin in front of me, you wouldn't say, 'My God, that guy can play.' It'd probably sound more like Jack Benny.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collarShowed him the gentleman an' scholar.

the inequality of values is constant. Gold simply is not brass or iron;

To cap it all, someone hidden in the crowd was blowing a brass trumpet incessantly.