Silver Age

A silver age is a name often given to a particular period within a history, typically as a lesser and later successor to a golden age, the metal silver generally being valuable, but less so than gold.

Read more about Silver Age:  Greek Myth, Other Silver Ages

Famous quotes containing the words silver and/or age:

    I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear
    But a golden nutmeg and a silver pear;
    Mother Goose (fl. 17th–18th century. I had a little nut-tree, nothing would it bear (l. 1–2)

    A good old man, sir, he will be talking; as they say, “When the age is in, the wit is out.”
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)