Best gold & jewels Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.”

“Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And hide with ornaments their want of art. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.”

Want Wells Art Grace Poet Advantage Gold Wit Naked Painter Jewels Ornaments

Author:Alexander Pope

“The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.”

Real Animal Tree Disease Gold Blue Vices Woods Proof Decay Flash Jewels June Vice Versa Dank Dead Trees

Book:Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

Source: Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)

“Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.”

Men Should Common Learning Gold Noble Esteem Silver Prize Jewels Common Man Noble Man

Author:Pope Pius II

“I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools.”

Way Pay Fool Gold Slave Ships Jewels Beggar

Book:The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs

Source: The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs, with Selected Traditional and Cover Songs

“I don't need to put jewels on to make myself feel important. I'd rather drop them for the benefit of less fortunate people. I don't need to put gold on my body, and I'm not criticizing people who do, but for me, I'd rather be around my family and see them be happy because that's worth more to me than gold.”

People Needs Feels Important Body Benefits My Family Gold Fortunate Criticize Jewels Less Fortunate

Author:Immortal Technique

“Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture.”

Art War Culture Objects Gold Riches Drag Defeated Jewels Spoil Medieval Tapestry

Author:Arne Glimcher

“Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, our old sins, our most shining sins, or we must perish forever. Christ is to be sought and bought with any pains, at any price; we can not buy this gold too dear. He is a jewel more worth than a thousand worlds, as all know who have him. Get him, and get all; miss him and miss all.”

Knows World Pain Christ Sin Forever Missing Thousand Gold Shining Dear Commodity Can Not Pearls Jewels Rubies

Book:Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks

Source: Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks

“Rich and rare were the gems she wore, And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.”

Hands Rich Gold Rings Bores Jewels Jewelry Gems

Author:Thomas Moore

“If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit.”

Source: Thus Spoke Galileo: The Great Scientist's Ideas and Their Relevance to the Present Day

“The deeper I go in considering the vanities of popular reasoning, the lighter and more foolish I find them. What greater stupidity can be imagined than that of calling jewels, silver, and gold "precious," and earth and soil "base"?”

Earth Greater Calling Gold Deeper Stupidity Foolish Vanity Reasoning Soil Silver Considering Jewels Lighters

Book:Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

Source: Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Ptolemaic and Copernican, Second Revised Edition

“When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they haven't been made lords. Though powerful and rich, their attitude is that of beggars. For those who know how to be content, simple fare is more delicious than rich delicacies, a cloth coat is warmer than fox fur, and an ordinary citizen does not defer to a king or a lord.”

“My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it.”

Shows Gold Grandfather Coins Jewels Great Grandfather Gold Coins

Author:Sarah Shahi

“This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels”

Knows Littles Light Turns Three Mountain Gold Tests Tales Fairy Dull Silver Fairy Tale Flash Jewels Impressive Caskets

Author:Sophie Kinsella

“Each day of the holidays comes bringing its own gifts. Open your heart, Untie the ribbons, and enjoy the contents! Were earth a thousand times as fair Beset with gold and jewels rare She yet were far too poor to be A narrow cradle, Lord, for Thee.”

Heart Earth Enjoy Poor Lord Thousand Fairs Gold Christmas Thee Each Day Holiday Jewels Cradle Ribbons Open Your Heart

Author:Martin Luther

“You may have tangible wealth untold: Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be I had a Mother who read to me.”

“No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.”

May Standards Gold Someday Diamond Jewels Jewelry Digging Gems Gold Standard Jewelry Boxes Gold And Diamonds

Book:The wit and wisdom of Mae West

Source: The wit and wisdom of Mae West

“She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.”

Ifs Water Rich Sea Rocks Mines Pure Gold Twenties Sand Pearls Jewels Jewelry Nectar

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.”

Children Father Left Loses Rooms Gold Prison Cease Thieves Thrones Jewels Sparkle There Comes A Time Luster

Author:Max von Sydow

“Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.”

Giving Kind Book House Speak Pleasure Painting Offers Built Gold Delight Bones Intense Intimacy Silver Estates Superficial Jewels Purple Garments Marble Pious Marrow Gold And Silver

Author:Petrarch

“Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel.”

Firsts May Mean Two Names Lines Gold Extremes Math Treasure Compare Division Jewels Geometry Ratios Theorems Precious Jewels Golden Mean Pythagorean Theorem

Author:Johannes Kepler

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