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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. -- Plautus
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. -- Thomas Carlyle
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance. -- Hedy Lamarr
I shop only at thrift stores and vintage stores. In New York, I like a place called Star Struck, and a place called The Family Jewels. -- Ezra Miller
The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali
The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. -- James Allen
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. -- Alan Watts
Jewels can be replaced, cousin. Independence, once lost, cannot. -- R.L. LaFevers
Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule. -- Bob Dylan
Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
One really understands testicles after reading 'The Family Jewels,' and one is gratified. -- Cathleen Schine
Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous. -- Douglas William Jerrold
Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant. -- Anne Sexton
Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief. -- Holly Black
Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear. -- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
You know, I'm a fan of Laurie Anderson. One of my favorite records is 'The Ugly One With the Jewels,' a spoken-word record. It's an extraordinary album. -- Emmylou Harris
I believe in the 12 Jewels and try to provide my childrem with them. That is Knowledge, Wisdom, Understanding, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Food, Clothing, Shelter, Love, Peace and Happiness. -- RZA
Since I didn't have any kind of formal training, it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim, or a vocal group called the Jewels ... , or Webern, or VarÃ¨se, or Stravinsky. To me it was all good music. -- Frank Zappa
Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. -- William Morris
Consistency is a paste jewel that only cheap men cherish. -- William Allen White
A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh. -- Robert Ludlum
If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. -- Gina Gershon
I enjoy how women dressed in the 1920s with the shimmering jewels and rich feathers. -- Janelle Monae
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness... -- Khalil Gibran
Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize. -- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations. -- Maurice Chevalier
I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel -- Parker Stevenson
In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions. -- Kendall Jenner
Seldom was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. -- Joseph Hall
I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a 'movie star' would be a very dangerous place. -- Alison Elliott
San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate -- Gavin Newsom
Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom. -- William Penn
Though we take from a covetous man all his treasure, he has yet one jewel left; you cannot bereave him of his covetousness. -- John Milton
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! -- Thomas Mann
I'm a bit grungy - I love wearing boots. But I also love putting on a beautiful white dress and jewels. I have those two alter-egos. -- Ellie Goulding
Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels. -- Charles Perrault
I had cars, houses, jewels, furs, and a husband who loved me, and a career I was happy with. But I found fulfillment in my relationship with Christ. -- Gloria Gaynor
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut! -- Kenneth Koch
With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army. -- Jim Ryun
Colour is what gives jewels their worth. They light up and enhance the face. Nothing is more elegant than a black skirt and sweater worn with a sparkling multi-stoned necklace. -- Christian Dior
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined. -- Patrick Henry
This is true Hollywood glamour! I am taking personal jewels from a screen legend and creating a one-of-a-kind pair of shoes,which will be worn by a movie star of today. -- Stuart Weitzman
I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there! -- Camille Pissarro
Helmet was joined to helmet, and spear to spear, and jewels, baggage, and elephants without number went with them, and you would have said it was a host that none could understand. -- Ferdowsi
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. -- Sun Tzu
Historically, art has always had a market. When one medieval fiefdom defeated another they would drag back its jewels, gold, tapestries and art objects as the spoils of war. Art equaled power, riches and culture. -- Arne Glimcher
If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit. -- Manolo Blahnik
I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands. -- Gina Gershon
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung. -- Phillips Brooks
I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop - it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux. -- Donald Knuth
One of the jewels in the crown of Labour's time in office was the rescue of the National Health Service. As the Commonwealth Fund, the London School of Economics and the Nuffield Foundation have all shown, health reforms as well as additional investment were essential to improved outcomes, especially for poorer patients. -- David Miliband
The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too. -- Giuseppe Zanotti
When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley. -- Gary Neville
Souls are God's jewels. -- Thomas Traherne
Patches are a nun's jewels. -- Marie Angelique Arnauld
Truth is the first of jewels. -- Margaret Fuller
Living jewels dropped unstained from heaven. -- Robert Pollok
Health and an able body are two jewels. -- Dario Fo
Some people are jewels in the wrong setting. -- Sophie Irene Loeb
Mansions were forming like jewels in my bloodstream. -- Pat Conroy
Seek on high bare trails Sky-reflecting violets... Mountain-top jewels -- Matsuo Basho
Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky. -- Bob Dylan
If you plant junk, don't expect to harvest jewels. -- Luke Taylor
Stop searching here and there, the jewels are inside YOU. -- Rumi
There's nightingales calling, shooting stars falling, like jewels in the rain. -- David Gray
Friendship is Love with jewels on, but without either flowers or veil. -- Augustus William Hare
We are treasure chests with more jewels inside than we can imagine. -- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
In every landscape should reside jewels of abstract art waiting to be discovered. -- Melissa Brown
Long friendships are like jewels, polished over time to become beautiful and enduring. -- Celia Brayfield
I'm all for skinny jeans, a flowing blouse, patterned flats and chunky jewels. -- Sydney Wayser
The flowers are Nature's jewels, with whose wealth she decks her summer beauty. -- George Croly
Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years. -- Edgar Guest
Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Have you noticed that many jewels make women either incredibly fat or incredibly thin? -- James M. Barrie
An ugly woman in a rich habit set out with jewels nothing can become. -- John Dryden
Be frugal of your time. It is one of the best jewels we have. -- Matthew Hale
And their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels. -- John Steinbeck
I don't need jewels and cars. It's about the delicacy of the way I'm handled. -- Leonor Varela
I guess the only jewels of my life were the pictures I made with Fred Astaire. -- Rita Hayworth
The worth of a wife is a man's good fortune;His jewels are his good children. -- Thiruvalluvar
If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart. -- Rumi
I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels. -- Ava Gardner
Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind. -- William Shakespeare
Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them. -Royce Westmoreland -- Judith McNaught
The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale. -- Carl Friedrich Gauss
My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare. -- Lady Hester Stanhope
I'm completely anti-establishment; the only thing I like about the Queen are her scarves and her jewels. -- Anita Pallenberg
The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. -- Henry David Thoreau
Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels. -- Pope Pius II
Fang! Angel?" i yelled, not even trying for stealth. i was storming the castle, not stealing the jewels. -- James Patterson
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. -- George Savile
Some men's memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes. -- George Savile
My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink. -- Hester Lucy Stanhope
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. -- Isaac Watts
Here in this moment we are beautiful, nocturnal creatures and our thoughts and words are jewels guarded by the moon. -- Henry Rollins
Dress suitably in short skirts and sitting boots, leave your jewels and gold wands in the bank, and buy a revolver. -- Constance Markievicz
Green and living jewels drip into my eyes" from the poem "All Green and Living Things" in the book "Terra Affirmative -- Jay Woodman
Christ has made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him Whom the Angels serve. -- Agnes of Rome
There's a treasury full of jade and jewels; It is in you. Don't go searching far from home for it-it's here. -- Gautama Buddha
Product procedure...must securely protect the crown jewels, but, equally important, it must eschew building high fences around the garbage cans. -- Fred Brooks
Women are the jewels, but for them to feel that way, they must focus on enriching their body, mind and soul. -- Linda Alfiori
I like playing dress-up, and I love pretty jewels, but for me, being a movie star would be a very dangerous place. -- Alison Elliott
You know, I've held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup. -- Wayne Gretzky
My great-great-grandfather was a shah back in the 1800s. Unfortunately, I don't have any gold coins or jewels to show for it. -- Sarah Shahi
Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels. -- Iris Apfel
I have seven different jewels for my piercing. Every day I wear a different one, according to the clothes I am wearing. -- Alessandra Ambrosio
Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming. -- Christian Dior
The business aspect is more controlled than the culture, which allowed MCs to come in and talk about things like cars and jewels. -- Redman
Take the advice of light when you're looking at linens or jewels; Looking at faces or forms, take the advice of the day. -- Ovid
Love is when Looking at a glance at youI found laughter in my eyes, Thoughts turns into jewels Where luster of your aura dwells -- Seema Gupta
A good name is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever. -- Josiah Johnson Hawes
I won't slave for beggar's pay, likewise gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way, to sink your ship of fools. -- Robert Hunter
The three jewels of Tao: compassion, moderation, and humility. Balthasar said compassion leads to courage, moderation leads to generosity, and humility leads to leadership. -- Christopher Moore
What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine. -- Felicia Hemans
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
On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads, as in those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels . . . -- Charles Dickens

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