Brass Quotes

Brass Quote of the day

Green little vaulter, in the sunny grass, Catching your heart up at the feel of June, Sole noise that's heard amidst the lazy noon, When ev'n the bees lag at the summoning brass.

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.

When an archer shoots for enjoyment, he has all his skill; when he shoots for a brass buckle, he gets nervous; when he shoots for a prize of gold, he begins to see two targets.

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

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."

It is not enough to reach for the brass ring. You must also enjoy the merry go round.

Faith without a measure of doubt ain't worth a brass farthin.

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.

I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.

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.

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar.

If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees.

There never seems to be any trouble brewing around a bar until a woman puts that high heel over the brass rail. Don't ask me why, but somehow women at bars seem to create trouble among men.

If you pinch the sea of its liberty, though it be walls of stone or brass, it will beat them down.

Test of Metal: Will of Iron, Nerves of Steel, Heart of Gold, Balls of Brass.

Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!

Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.

Father was an atheist; he had even joined the Skeleton Army - a club of men who went about in masks or black faces, with ribald placards and a brass band, to make war upon the Salvation Army.

Establish liberty on a rock of brass.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

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

When you talking about funk music you just talking about a collage of a lot of different types of music. They used strings, they had brass, they had vocalist.

People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass.

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

There is a spirit in us that makes our brass to blare and our cymbals crash-all, of course, supported by the practicalities of trained lung power, throat, heart, guts.

Hercules used noise! Brass bells! He scared them away with the most horrible sound he could-" said Percy "Percy... Chiron's collection!

If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you have ultimately is just sounding brass and tinkling symbol.

The heart of silver falls ever into the hands of brass. The sensitive herb is eaten as grass by the swine.

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

Brass, stay down all summer.

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

Lot Of Strip Clubs in Florida... Good grief... Florida has so many strip clubs, they need to change their state flag to a brass pole.

I have raised for myself a monument more durable than brass.

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

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?

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.

He's arm'd without that's innocent within; Be this thy Screen, and this thy Wall of Brass.

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

we Irish don't really need thousands of people surging behind a big brass band to have a parade. One guitar player and a few people whistling will do the job.

Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.

Creative people tend to pass the responsibility for getting down to brass tacks to others.

Brass shines with constant usage, a beautiful dress needs wearing,Leave a house empty, it rots.

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift.

Be this our wall of brass, to be conscious of having done no evil, and to grow pale at no accusation.