Precious Gems Quotes

Good advice is rarer than rubies.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy.

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence.

Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured.

Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

A pomegranate is filled with rubies when you open it up. Diamonds may be a girl's best friend - but not for me. I love rubies; they're great over necks, you know.

Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the gentler fire of the ruby, there is the rich purple of the amethyst, there is the sea-green of the emerald, and all shining together in an indescribable union. Others, by an excessive heightening of their hues equal all the colours of the painter, others the flame of burning brimstone, or of a fire quickened by oil.

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.

Gold and precious gems are, in many places, the one form of wealth a woman can use to protect and enhance herself within the elaborate structure of patriarchy.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

And cheerfully at sea, Success you still entice, To get the pearl and gold, And ours to hold Virginia,, Earth's only paradise

The ultimate in futility is owning important jewelry. Insurers often insist on the wearing of paste replicas because necks with real rocks around 'em risk wringing.

Treasure, that is what you are

Value them; they are pearls of great price

From the subterranean ore of memory we extract the jeweled visions of our future.