Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

And what about the cash, my existence's jewel?

William Shakespeare

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

William Shakespeare

A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

Arthur Conan Doyle

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

William Shakespeare

Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

William Shakespeare

My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors.

This is a very unique market here and Lake San Marcos is a jewel tucked into North County. We are also going to try to provide more local services so residents don't have to go out onto Rancho Santa Fe Road ---- because it's a different world out there.

A watch is the most important piece of jewelry you can wear.

The whole quilted look is very popular but in bright, vibrant jewel tones.

Jamie Zawinski

Convenient though it would be if it were true, Mozilla [Netscape 1.0] is not big because it's full of useless crap. Mozilla is big because your needs are big. Your needs are big because the Internet is big. There are lots of small, lean web browsers out there that, incidentally, do almost nothing useful. But being a shining jewel of perfection was not a goal when we wrote Mozilla.

Susan B. Anthony

Inconsistency is the jewel of the American people.

We have a real variety here and I think that is why residents like to come. This year there seemed to be more jewelry than anything else.

There's going to be interesting jewelry at everyone's seat that's going to be kind of glow-in-the-dark and kind of festive.

The trade-off of getting the Jewel stores is more than worth it for Supervalu.

Dylan Moran

I'll work for whoever wants to hire me. Even the jewelry channel.

Douglas William Jerrold

Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.

Amber Tamblyn

I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it

Richard Bach

You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel.

Rita Hayworth

I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire.

Sophia Loren

I was not intrigued with the accouterments of success and fame, the furs, jewels, expensive automobiles and mansions... I can assure you that these things were not on my mind when I sat spellbound in that Pozzuoli movie house. It was what these performers on the screen were doing, not what they received for doing it.

Rumi

Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU.

Thomas Traherne

Souls are God's jewels.

Sophie Kinsella

This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You never choose the gold shiny one. Or even the quite impressive silver one. What you're supposed to do is choose the dull little lead one, and then there's a flash of light and it turns into a mountain of jewels

Tammin Sursok

The music I love listening to is more of the Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Dido, Jewel, Nora Jones, Joss Stone, a bit more of that organic live-instrumentation feel.

Swami Vivekananda

"Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah, by serving him. If a woman is a jewel, take her in marriage even if she comes from a low family of the lowest caste." Such is the law laid down by our great and peerless legislator, the divine Manu.

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Truffles must come to the table in their own stock and as you break open this jewel sprung from a poverty-stricken soil, imagine - if you have never visited it - the desolate kingdom where it rules.

Socrates

Regard your good name as the richest jewel yoou can possibly be possessed of.

John Milton

And these gems of Heav'n, her starry train.

John Steinbeck

And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.

Matthew Henry

Everlasting life is a jewel of too great a value to be purchased by the wealth of this world.

Maya Angelou

Precious jewel, you glow, you shine, reflecting all the good things in the world. Just look at yourself.

Matsuo Basho

Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels

Philip Sidney

The tip no jewel needs to wear: The tip is jewel of the ear.