Quotes on jewelry
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.
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Pliny Quotes
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
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George Eliot Quotes
Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.
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Chinese Proverb Quotes
Do not judge from mere appearances; for the lift laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy. The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.
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Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
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Emma Goldman Quotes
Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
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Lynn Hecht Schafren Quotes
The three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The jeweler allows me to wear the sapphire blue lake on my finger, the emerald green leaves around my neck, and take the citrine sunset with me wherever I go. Jewelry has become my daytime link to nature in an office with no windows. And if I have to work late, there's nothing like diamond stars and a pearl full moon against an onyx night sky.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
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Mark Twain Quotes
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
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Erma Bombeck Quotes
A woman wears her tears like jewelry.
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Author Unknown Quotes
When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
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Peter Marshall Quotes
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God...
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Thomas de Quincey Quotes
There are worlds in an opal.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
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Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
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Honore de Balzac Quotes
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
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Mae West Quotes
Opal is the multi-gem.
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Astrid Alauda Quotes
The story of Harold Ross, the New Yorker and me is a mere footnote to the story of our time, and we might as well face the truth that to researchers of the future, poking about among the ruins of time, we shall all be tiny glitters. But then, so are diamonds.
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James Grover Thurber Quotes
As though pure white snow flashed and sparkled with the color of bright ruddy wine, and was overcome by this radiance.
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Author Unknown Quotes
I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
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Mae West Quotes
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
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Titus Maccius Plautus Quotes
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
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Kahlil Gibran Quotes
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
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William Alger Quotes
I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It's the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.
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Henry Graham Greene Quotes
The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.
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Robert Ludlum Quotes
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
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Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
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Juvenal Quotes
Diamonds are a girl's best friend and a man's worst enemy.
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Author Unknown Quotes
These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
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William Shakespeare Quotes