Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold — Aristotle
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth. — Napoleon Hill
Watch out for the medallion, my diamonds are reckless,
Feels like a midget is hangin from my necklace! — Ludacris
Diamonds are forever, and so is Ric Flair! — Ric Flair
Short Gold And Diamonds Quotes
Silk does for the body what diamonds do for the hand. — Oscar de la Renta
A kiss on the hand may be quite continental, But Diamonds are a girl's best friend. — Leo Robin
Gold is money. Everything else is credit. — J. P. Morgan
The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh. — Robert Ludlum
Gold will be slave or master. — Horace
If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want — Greek Proverbs
True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style. — Nicole Richie
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. — Sir Thomas Browne
A kiss on the hand may feel very, very good, but a diamond and sapphire bracelet lasts forever. — Anita Loos
Gold And Diamonds Image Quotes
Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the on to find the gold.
Diamonds And Pearls Quotes
When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends. — Helen Steiner Rice
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too. — Rick Warren
Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time, forever and ever. — Rabindranath Tagore
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you too.
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.] — Jean De La Bruyere
Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. — Marlene Dietrich
The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flint-stone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. — Saadi Shirazi
All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.
Your body is sacred. You’re far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too. — Muhammad Ali
I hold with the old-fashioned criticism that Browning is not really a poet, that he has all the gifts but the one needful and the pearls without the string; rather one should say raw nuggets and rough diamonds. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. — Aberjhani
People imagine I am always in a Bentley with pearls and diamonds and black glasses and Karl Lagerfeld next to me. — Ines de La Fressange
Black Diamonds Quotes
Don't judge the future of a person based on his present conditions, becausetime has the power to change black coal to shiny diamond. — Chanakya
Those eerie diamond eyes shifted over to her and she stilled, as if he's willed her to do so. There was a moment of silence. And then in a rough voice the man whose life she saved spoke four words that changed everything...changed her life, changed her destiny: "She. Comes. With. Me. — J.R. Ward
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may well call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. — Joel Osteen
The sky was a sparkling succession of black diamonds on black velvet made crystal clear by the blackout. — Sara Sheridan
I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial. — Karl Lagerfeld
As Believers, we shine brightest in a sad and dark world; like a diamond that illuminates best when placed on black velvet. — Chris Alexander
My boyfriend's idea of a lesson was to take me on a black diamond run in the middle of a hail storm and say, 'Go!' Ski patrol had to escort me to another lift to get me down the mountain. No, that wasn't humiliating, not at all. — Claudia Black
There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the reason, I believe, why some people allude to coal as "black diamonds." Both these commodities represent wealth; but coal is a much less portable form of property. — Joseph Conrad
I wear black diamonds instead of regular ones because I’m not flashy, just flossssy. — Justin Bieber
Diamond Rings Quotes
It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar. — Judith Martin
I don't care how cheap the box is that you put a diamond ring in, nothing about the box diminishes the value of the content. — T. D. Jakes
I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets. — ASAP Rocky
If you give that gal a diamond ring, you'll get a diamond back. She's just a venom wearing denim, boy, she's always making tracks. — Junior Brown
They found our hero in the gutter with a diamond ring and a gun. — Eric Clapton
Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger. — Chuck Tanner
I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. — Loretta Lynn
Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people, they're drinking, thinking that they got it made. Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things, but you'd better lift your diamond ring, you'd better pawn it, babe. — Bob Dylan
And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings. — Kanye West
Diamond Quotes
The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success. — Eric Thomas
Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. — Mary Mcleod Bethune
You're beautiful like a flower
More valuable than a diamond
You are powerful like a fire...
There is nothing in the world that you cannot do
When you believe in you, who are beautiful
Yeah you, who are brilliant
Yeah you, who are powerful
Yeah you, who are resilient — India.Arie
One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others. — Vincent de Paul
Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds. — Henry David Thoreau
Dream tonight of peacock tails, Diamond fields and spouter whales. Ills are many, blessing few, But dreams tonight will shelter you. — Herman Melville
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
I know you think my life is good 'cause my diamond piece,
But my life been good since I started finding peace. — Nas
Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever. — Horace Mann
The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gold And Silver Quotes
Masonic labor is purely a labor of love. He who seeks to draw Masonic wages in gold and silver will be disappointed. The wages of a Mason are in the dealings with one another; sympathy begets sympathy, kindness begets kindness, helpfulness begets helpfulness, and these are the wages of a Mason. — Benjamin Franklin
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. — Mahatma Gandhi
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure. — Cecil Beaton
I say you call yourself Goldstein, Silverstein, and Rubinstein because you're stealing all the gold and silver and rubies all over the earth - and it's true, because of your thieving and stealing and roguing, and lying all over the face of the planet earth. — Khalid Abdul Muhammad
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate — Johnny Depp
A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but Allah tests the heart. — Moroccan Proverbs
Christ died. He left a will in which He gave His soul to His Father, His body to Joseph of Arimathea, His clothes to the soldiers, and His mother to John. But to His disciples, who had left all to follow Him, He left not silver or gold, but something far better-His PEACE! — Matthew Henry
Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her. — Solomon
Under the mountains is silver and gold. But under the night sky, hunger and cold. —
The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life. — Jill McCorkle
Precious Jewels Quotes
Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself. — Maya Angelou
All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious. — Pearl S. Buck
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Our true nature is like a precious jewel: although it may be temporarily buried in mud, it remains completely brilliant and unaffected. We simply have to uncover it. — Pema Chodron
No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away. — Al-Ghazali
Who can find a wife of noble character? She is far more precious than jewels. — Bible Proverbs
Bodily and spiritual affliction are the surest sign of Divine predilection. Gratitude for suffering is a precious jewel for our heavenly crown... Man should always firmly believe that God sends just that trial which is most beneficial for him. — Gertrude the Great
Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth. — Matthew Henry
Geometry has two great treasures; one is the Theorem of Pythagoras; the other, the division of a line into extreme and mean ratio. The first we may compare to a measure of gold; the second we may name a precious jewel. — Johannes Kepler
Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels. — Leslie Ludy
Gold Rush Quotes
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land. — John Jakes
The Internet is like a gold-rush; the only people making money are those who sell the pans. — Will Hobbs
I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water. — Neil Young
During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit. — Peter Lynch
It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels. — Josh Williams
Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities. — Jeff Bezos
Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it. — Patrick deWitt
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you. — Katherine Anne Porter
The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise. — Wayne Thiebaud
I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand. — Eleanor Catton
Buying Gold Quotes
Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver. — Constance Markievicz
You don't advise people to buy and hold gold. You advise people to use software that shows ledger entries for gold held by strangers, the security of which relies not only on trust in strangers and their politics, but on PINs and passwords. — Nick Szabo
I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold. — Big Sean
The shortest route to making money in the market is to buy gold stocks when nobody likes it. The only problem is that good stocks seldom have friends. — Thomas Phelps
You must be very patient, very persistent. The world isn't going to shower gold coins on you just because you have a good idea. You're going to have to work like crazy to bring that idea to the attention of people. They're not going to buy it unless they know about it. — Herb Kelleher
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth? — Og Mandino
Love has no thought of self!
Love buys not with the ruthless usurer's gold
The loathsome prostitution of a hand
Without a heart! Love sacrifices all things
To bless the thing it loves! — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Things that really matter are the things that gold can't buy, so let's have another cup o' coffee and let's have another piece o' pie. — Irving Berlin
Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver. — Karl Marx
As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient. — W. Averell Harriman
No one is perfect... absolutely no one. Like precious stones, we have a few flaws, but why focus on that? Focus on what you like about yourself, and that will bring you happiness and peace. — Richard Simmons
In precious opals there might be a dash of red here, a seductive swirl of blue there, and in the center, perhaps, a flirtatious glance of green. But each stone flickers with a unique fire and a good opal is one with an opinion of its own. — Victoria Finlay
Honor is like the eye, which cannot suffer the least impurity without damage. It is a precious stone, the price of which is lessened by a single flaw. — Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
But loss is a precious stone to me, a nectar Distilled in time, preaching the truth of winter To the fallen heart that does not cease to fall. — James K. Baxter
For those who live by faith, the cross is a treasure more valuable than gold and precious stones. — Basil Moreau
All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world. — William Law
For ages happiness has been represented as a huge precious stone, impossible to find, which people seek for hopelessly. It is not so; happiness is a mosaic, composed of a thousand little stones, which separately and of themselves have little value, but which united with art form a graceful design. — Delphine de Girardin
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. — William Shakespeare
Every woman deserves diamonds, and even if you can't afford to go out and buy diamonds for yourself or you don't have actual stone diamonds, I think when we look at ourselves we should refer to ourselves as a precious stone. — Nia Long
We have different forms assigned to us in the school of life, different gifts imparted. All is not attractive that is good. Iron is useful, though it does not sparkle like the diamond. Gold has not the fragrance of a flower. So different persons have various modes of excellence, and we must have an eye to all. — William Wilberforce
Rastafari means to live in nature, to see the Creator in the wind, sea and storm. Other religions pointed to the sky, and while we were looking in the sky, they dug up all the gold and diamonds and went away with them — Jimmy Cliff
It’s supply and demand. If gold is discovered, then it gets harder to make money mining gold because everyone’s competing with you. — Jim Simons
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. — Samuel Johnson
Life is a journey. Perhaps we may be more or less pointed towards a general direction, but whether we pave that road with diamonds and gold or just plain dirt and cement is up to us. — Alex Tan
Love is priceless. And all I really want is a good night kiss. So if tears were diamonds, more valuable gold, then a fortune in the corners of my eyes I would hold. — Drew Chadwick
No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday. — Mae West
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone. — Joseph Joubert
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. — Samuel Johnson
I love jewelry - gold and diamonds. I'm a woman. — Monica Bellucci
No virtue can be real that has not been tried. The gold in the crucible alone is perfect; the loadstone tests the steel, and the diamond is tried by the diamond, while metals gleam the brighter in the furnace. — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
In too deep to see the diamond, down too dark to see the gold. Now he won't let go of the shovel, and he cannot dig out of the hole. — Randy Travis
Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history. — Sayings
A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold. — Philip Massinger
[During the second Sudanese Civil War] what was actually killing us wasn't the Muslims, wasn't the Arabs. It was somebody sitting somewhere manipulating the system, and using religion to get what they want to get out of us, which is the oil, the diamond, the gold and the land. — Emmanuel Jal
Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold — Nelson Mandela
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. — Andreas Capellanus
If there were as great a scarcity of soil as of jewels or precious metals, there would not be a prince who would not spend a bushel of diamonds and rubies and a cartload of gold just to have enough earth to plant a jasmine in a little pot, or to sow an orange seed and watch it sprout, grow, and produce its handsome leaves, its fragrant flowers, and fine fruit. — Galileo Galilei
The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds. — John Tillotson
Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size. — Johann Kaspar Lavater
I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king. — Tom Petty
Hana, everything that God made valuable in the world is covered and hard to get to. Where do you find diamonds? Deep down in the ground, covered and protected. Where do you find pearls? Deep down at the bottom of the ocean, covered up and protected in a beautiful shell. Where do you find gold? Way down in the mine, covered over with layers and layers of rock. You've got to work hard to get to them. — Muhammad Ali
God was fair to the Japanese. He gave them no oil, no coal, no diamonds, no gold, no natural resources — nothing! Nothing comes from the island that you can sustain a civilization on. What God gave the Japanese was a sense of style—maintained through the centuries through hard work and the disciplines of ambition. — Diana Vreeland
If you're shipwrecked on an island with 10 million dollars and your wife has gold and diamonds, but there's no water, no arable land, no fish, you have nothing. Money is a 'nothing' thing. — Jacque Fresco
Friendship is a priceless gift, that cannot be bought or sold. But it's value is far greater than a mountain made of gold. For gold is cold and lifeless, it can neither see nor hear. And in time of trouble, it is powerless to cheer. So when you ask God for a gift, be thankful if he sends not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends. — Natalie
Thank you, but diamonds break easier than gold and people shine more through brokenness. — Samantha Boscarino
The Boer War occurred 37 years ago. Boer means farmer. Many criticized a great power like Britain for trying to wipe out the Boers. Upon making inquiry, I found all the gold and diamond mines of South Africa were owned by Jews; that Rothschild controlled gold; Samuels controlled silver, Baum controlled other mining, and Moses controlled base metals. Anything these people touch they inevitably pollute. — Henry Hamilton Beamish
If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory. — John Flavel
See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby. A thin gold ring set with diamonds. That raised the once child's heart of her to agonies of passion before I was. Here is the anguish of mortality. Hopes wrecked, love sundered. See the mother sorrowing. How everything that I was warned of's come to pass. — Cormac McCarthy
Time is more precious than gold, more precious than diamonds, more precious than oil or any valuable treasures. It is time that we do not have enough of; it is time that causes the war within our hearts, and so we must spend it wisely. — Cecelia Ahern
Soon enough his head would be swimming with tales of derring-do and high adventure, tales of beautiful maidens kissed, of evildoers shot with pistols or fought with swords, of bags of gold, of diamonds as big as the tip of your thumb, of lost cities and of vast mountains, of steam-trains and clipper ships, of pampas, oceans, deserts, tundra. — Neil Gaiman
I've been enjoying playing with fashion - gold grills and diamond grills have just become a part of that. — Jill Scott
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