Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean de la Bruyere

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]

J. K. Rowling

A gigantic tortoise with a jewel-encrusted shell was glittering near the window.

Honore de Balzac

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Evan Esar

Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.

Isaac Watts

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

Isaac Newton

A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.

Gwendolyn Brooks

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

John F. Kennedy

Philanthropy, charity, giving voluntarily and freely... call it what you like, but it is truly a jewel of an American tradition.

Jonathan Edwards

As God delights in his own beauty, he must necessarily delight in the creature's holiness which is a conformity to and participation of it, as truly as [the] brightness of a jewel, held in the sun's beams, is a participation or derivation of the sun's brightness, though immensely less in degree.

Jonathan Ames

I don't like to publicly acknowledge being a Jew.

Philippa Gregory

I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.

Lionel Blue

I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.

Lionel Blue

Jews are just like everyone else, only more so.

Monica Crowley

Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state.

Pearl S. Buck

Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.

Pearl S. Buck

All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

Rabindranath Tagore

Jewel-Like the immortaldoes not boast of its length of yearsbut of the scintillating point of the moment.

John Dryden

An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become.

Judith McNaught

Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them. -Royce Westmoreland

Karen Mills

I saw the S.B.A. with just enormous potential, and that's what I told the president - this is really a jewel.

Kate Reardon

My favourite thing in my wardrobe is my jewelry.

Ovid

Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

Joseph Stalin

The Jews are not a nation!

Joseph Brodsky

I'm a bad Jew, a bad Russian, a bad everything.

Mae West

Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.

Mae West

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.

Mae West

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.

Michael Sandel

It is true that the Jewish tradition emphasizes the moral mandate to save life. It also has a different position from the Catholic Church on the moral status of the embryo. It has a more developmental view of when human life, in the sense of personhood, begins than does the Catholic Church.

Markus Zusak

They were French, they were Jews, and they were you.

Mari Evans

Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future

Margaret Deland

the blue and cloudless day closes like the lid of a casket of jewels upon the violet rim of sea, and shuts out the light.

Mark Twain

Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.

Parker Stevenson

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel