Definition of Marble

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Marble

A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.

A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.

A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.

Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.

Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.

To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.

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Marble Quotations

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Benjamin Franklin

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles Spurgeon

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
Michelangelo

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
Michelangelo

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
Michelangelo

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
Michelangelo

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo

Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Marble Translations

marble in Danish is marmor
marble in Dutch is pilletje
marble in French is marbre
marble in German is Marmor
marble in Italian is pallina, marmo
marble in Norwegian is klinkekule
marble in Swedish is marmor, spelkula

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