“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.”
Chinese Proverbs
“A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.”
Thomas Browne Sr.
“The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone”
Japanese Proverb
“I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with”
Plato
“I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.”
Stevie Smith
“The ocean and I have many pebblesTo find and wash off and roll into shape.”
William Stafford
