Quotation About Jewelry

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.  

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let us not be too particular.  It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.  

Mark Twain

Mysterious opals contain the wonders of the skies - sparkling rainbows, fireworks, and lightning, shifting and moving in their depths.  

Author Unknown

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.  

Jean de la Bruyere

Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.  

George Savile

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom. 

Lemuel K. Washburn

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.  

 Graham Greene 

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.  

Author Unknown

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.  

Henry Brooke

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.  

Honore de Balzac

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.  

Erma Bombeck

Quotes About Jealousy

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest. 

A.R. Orage

Envy is a symptom of lack of appreciation of our own uniqueness and self worth.  Each of us has something to give that no one else has. 

Elizabeth O'Connor

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.  

Paul Eldridge

If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill.  

Danish Proverb

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.  

William Hazlitt

The jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. 

Dorothy Dix

Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse:  envy alone wants both.  

Robert Burton

Calamities are of two kinds:  misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.  

Ambrose Bierce

It is never wise to seek or wish for another's misfortune. If malice or envy were tangible and had a shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang. 

Charley Reese

Never waste jealousy on a real man:  it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.  

George Bernard Shaw

The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause. 

Baltasar Gracián

Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.  

Harold Coffin

Quotes About Imagination

Think left and think right and think low and think high.  Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!  

Dr. Seuss

Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. 

Stephen Leacock

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.  

Edgar Allan Poe

When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion.  Then I go out and paint the stars.  

Vincent Van Gogh

Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play.  

Henri Matisse

Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if..."  And then do it.  

Duane Michals

Fairy Tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.  

G.K. Chesterton

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.  

Albert Szent-Györgyi

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.  

Calvin Trillin

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.  

Paul Gauguin

To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.  

George Kneller

I believe in the imagination.  What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.  

Duane Michals

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.  

William Shakespeare

Famous Quotes About The Internet

The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.  

Andrew Brown

One of the Internet's strengths is its ability to help consumers find the right needle in a digital haystack of data.  

Jared Sandberg

Information on the Internet is subject to the same rules and regulations as conversation at a bar.  

George Lundberg

The Internet has been the most fundamental change during my lifetime and for hundreds of years.  

Rupert Murdoch

The Internet is the first thing that humanity has built that humanity doesn't understand, the largest experiment in anarchy that we have ever had.  

Eric Schmidt

Blogs seem to have two magnetic poles, one attracting friends, the other repulsing relatives.  

Robert Brault

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.  

Dave Barry

I believe that social media's greatest gift is in providing every person the forum to be themselves, speak their heart & soul.  

Jeb Dickerson

On Twitter we get excited if someone follows us.  In real life we get really scared and run away.  

Author Unknown

After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. 

Denise Caruso

Top 12 Quotes About Insects

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.  

Betty Reese

Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway.  

Mary Kay Ash

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy.  

Emily Dickinson

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.  

Bradley Millar

When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.  

Congo Proverb

Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test.  

Terri Guillemets

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. 

Mark Twain

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?  

Author Unknown

Take time to smell the roses and eventually you'll inhale a bee.  

Author Unknown

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.  

Bill Vaughan

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.  

American Quaker Saying

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.  

Andy Warhol

Inspirational Quotes About Intuition

Trust your hunches.  They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.  

Joyce Brothers

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it. 

Lama Surya Das

The invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you. 

Wayne Dyer

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.  

Florence Scovel Shinn

The most decisive actions of our life... are most often unconsidered actions.  

André Gide

Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits. 

Robert Brault

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.  

Stanley Baldwin

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.  

Jawaharlal Nehru

Instinct is the nose of the mind.  

Madame De Girardin

Trust your own instinct.  Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.  

Billy Wilder

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.  

John Sterling

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.  

Michael Burke

Quotation About The Inner Child

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The reluctance to put away childish things may be a requirement of genius.  

Rebecca Pepper Sinkler

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.  When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult.  

Eugene Ionesco

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who does not play has lost forever the child who lived in him.  

Pablo Neruda

One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.  

Sam Levenson

In my soul, I am still that small child who did not care about anything else but the beautiful colors of a rainbow.  

Papiha Ghosh

If you want to be creative, stay in part a child, with the creativity and invention that characterizes children before they are deformed by adult society.  

Jean Piaget

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. 

Albert Einstein

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.  

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.  

Sigmund Freud

I want to giggle myself to sleep each night and jump on the fluffy, comforting pillows of faith. 

Terri Guillemets