Every silver lining has a cloud.

Behind every silver lining, there's a cloud.

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

If you're looking for a silver lining to a dark cloud, that would be it, ... I wasn't traded for a bag of pucks. It helps your confidence to know that you are being traded for quality hockey players. It's been interesting. I've been moved around quite a bit, always in big trades. Most times, the reasons were economic ones.

Optimists are those picturesquely depicted as persons who, when presented with a glass that is half filled with water, describe it as ‘half full’. In other words, the optimist believes that there is ALWAYS light at the end of the tunnel or, put differently, that a silver lining lurks behind every dark cloud.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.