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