Polished brass will pass upon more people than rough gold.
Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring
True love requires action. We can speak of love all day long, we can write notes or poems that proclaim it, sing songs that praise it, and preach sermons that encourage it but until we manifest that love in action, our words are nothing but sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water.
Brass, stay down all summer.
I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.
Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior.
He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.
Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.
Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?
His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.
Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.
I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations.
Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.
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