“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear”
Daniel Defoe
“A diamond with a flaw is worth more than a pebble without imperfections”
Chinese Proverb
“She was polished, and carried herself well. Danny was a bit of a diamond-in-the-rough.”
Steve Mendelson
“A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“I call him the unpolished diamond. We polished him off today and he was really shining.”
Damon Allen
“Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.”
Bill Murray