(76 quotes found)
“He who would search for pearls must dive below.”
John Dryden
“By going to the den of a lion pearls from the head of an elephant may be obtained; but by visiting the hole of a jackal nothing but the tail of a calf or a bit of the hide of an ass may found.”
Chanakya
“Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in a foul oyster”
William Shakespeare
“Hang in there. If you believe what you're doing is unique. Otherwise give up or sound like Nirvana or Pearl Jam.”
Joey Ramone
“Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below”
“I know someday you'll have a beautiful life. I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky. But why can't it be mine?”
Eddie Vedder
“The year's at the spring / And day's at the morn; / Morning's at seven; / The hillside's dew-pearled; / The lark's on the wing; / The snail's on the thorn; / God's in his heaven - / All's right with the world!”
Robert Browning
“Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine”
Irwin Edman
“The countless gold of a merry heart,The rubies and pearls of a loving eye,The indolent never can bring to the mart,Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.”
William Blake
“This intellectual Pearl Harbor, a real gutsy sock to the stomach.”
J. Allen Hynek
