Quotes
Quotes about Pearls
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Some asked how pearls did grow, and where?
Then spoke I to my girl
To part her lips, and showed them there
The quarelets of pearl.
Innumerable as the stars of night,
Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun
Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Go boldly forth, my simple lay,
Whose accents flow with artless ease,
Like orient pearls at random strung.
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,
Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;
The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,
FitzGerald strung them on an English thread.
Will change the pebbles of our puddly thought
To orient pearls.
Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.
Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb.
Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
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.]
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls; Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.
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.]
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.
You have seen Sunshine and rain at once--her smiles and tears Were like, a better way: those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip seemed not to know What guests were in her eyes, which parted thence As pearls from diamonds dropped.
Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.
No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
'Twas he that ranged the words at random flung, Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.
