Jewels Quotes - Page 17

• The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune;
  His jewels are his good children.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Children, Men, Wife

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire to put many crowns upon His head, and this you can best do by winning souls for Him. These are the spoils that He covets, these are the trophies for which He fights, these are the jewels that shall be His best adornment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Fighting, Winning

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• The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay of the June woods is in itself proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa.

  Aldo Leopold

  Real, Animal, June

  Aldo Leopold (2013). “Aldo Leopold: A Sand County Almanac & Other Writings on Conservation and Ecology: (Library of America #238)”, p.104, Library of America

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• Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that singular organic jewel of our seas, which grows brighter as one woman wears it and, worn by another, dulls and goes to dust.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dust, Sea, Imagination

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.11, Penguin

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• Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.

  Aldo Leopold

  Real, June, Rainbow

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.102, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.

  Austin O'Malley

  Life, Eye, Dark

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• The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Men, Empires, Normal

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 121, 1982.

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• Neither rings, bright chains, nor bracelets, perfumes, flowers, nor well-trimmed hair, Grace a man like polished language, th' only jewel he should wear.

  Bhartrhari

  Flower, Men, Hair

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• Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn.

  Alan Seeger

  Beauty, Sweet, Heart

  Alan Seeger, Amanda Harlech (2001). “Alan Seeger: the complete works”, Steidl / Edition7L

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• The First Amendment, I think, is the jewel of our Constitution.

  Samuel Alito

  Thinking, Firsts, Constitution

  "Alito: Threat to Judicial Independence at Historic High" by Michael Scholl, October 4, 2006.

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• 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.

  Isaac Newton

  Sea, Ions, Watches

  Sir Isaac Newton (1977). “1718-1727”

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• Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!

  Henry Vaughan

  Lying, Dark, Men

  'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

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• Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

  Susan B. Anthony

  People, Inconsistency

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

  Mac DeMarco

  Blue, Wave, Music Is

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.

  William Mountford

  Suicide, Men, Soul

  William Mountford, Frederic Dan Huntington (1850). “Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth”, p.136

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

  Mae West

  Ems, Diamond, I Can

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• When a little pleasure has flashed for a moment against the dark, I have made that jewel mine. I have hundreds of them ... I call it my Necklace of Perfect Joy. When the world goes wrong, I have only to close my eyes and remember all the links in my chain, set with gems, some large and some small, but all beautiful with the beauty which never fades. It is all I can take with me when I go. My material possessions must stay behind, but my Necklace of Perfect Joy will bring me happiness to the end, when I put it on, to be nevermore unclasped.

  Myrtle Reed

  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

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• How deep is the magic of sound may be learned by breaking some sweet verses into prose. The operation has been compared to gathering dew-drops, which shine like jewels upon the flower, but run into water in the hand. The elements remain, but the sparkle is gone.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Running, Sweet, Flower

  Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”

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• As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.

  John Ruskin

  Cutting, Land, Long

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• Truth is the first of jewels.

  Margaret Fuller

  Truth, Firsts, Truth Is

  Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (2001). “My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller”, p.219, Cornell University Press

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• Some people are jewels in the wrong setting.

  Sophie Irene Loeb

  People, Settings, Setting

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• Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.

  Nina Berberova

  Dying, Pearls, Way

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• Roque...lined his men up and had them produce all the clothing, jewels, money, and other objects that they had stolen since the last time they had divided the spoils. Having made a hasty appraisal and reduced to terms of money those items that could not be divided, he split the whole into shares with such equity and exactitude that in not a single instance did he go beyond or fall short of a strict distributive justice. They were all well satisfied with the payment received, indeed they were quite well pleased; and Roque then turned to Don Quixote.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Wisdom, Fall, Men

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• 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.

  Margaret Deland

  Light, Blue, Sea

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• Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

  Theodore Parker

  Men, World, Treasure

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