(152 quotes found)
“Life should be like the precious metals, weigh much in little bulk”
Seneca
“Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head”
William Shakespeare
“And the days dwindle down To a precious few, September, November - And these few precious days I'd spend with you, These golden days I'd spend with you”
Maxwell Anderson
“Good listeners, like precious gems, are to be treasured”
Walter Anderson
“Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.”
W. Clement Stone
“A good name is better than precious ointment. [Ecclesiastes 7:1]”
Bible
“It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think -- and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting”
Rudolf Bultmann
“Gems being precious just cannot be possessed by all and sundry. ”
Sam Veda
“To all the seeds that follow meprotect your essenceBorn with less, but you still precious.”
Tupac Shakur
