“A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.”
Chinese Proverbs
“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 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
“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
“Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth”
Plutarch
