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Pearls mean tears. -- Doris Lessing
Pearls are always appropriate. -- Jackie Kennedy
He who would search for pearls must dive below. -- John Dryden
Pearls are congealed oyster spit. -- Margaret Atwood
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls. -- Gertrude Stein
Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner. -- Nina Berberova
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In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. -- Honore de Balzac
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world. -- Jean de la Bruyere
[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine. -- Dorothy Parker
Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen. -- Stephan Pastis
Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen. -- Stephan Pastis
Think of yourselves as pearls. We, sitting in our rows, eyes down, we make her salivate morally. We are hers to define, we must suffer her adjectives. I think about pearls. Pearls are congealed oyster spit. -- Margaret Atwood
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. -- Joseph Addison
A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls. -- Coco Chanel
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth. -- Bill Vaughan
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker. -- Gwendolyn Brooks
All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography. -- Federico Fellini
The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. -- Grace Kelly
Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. -- Joseph Hall
My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor. -- Phyllis Diller
When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story. -- Gary Cherone
If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. -- John Bunyan
Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below. -- John Dryden
Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free. -- A. E. Housman
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty saying are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. -- George D. Prentice
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. -- James Russell Lowell
Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom. -- Johnny Depp
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
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
I am not gay, I just like pearls. -- Julian Eltinge
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth. -- Bill Vaughan
A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape. -- Paul Scofield
My style was nostalgic and involved pearls and penny loafers, always with the pennies in them. -- Mia Sara
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
Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck. -- Marsha Norman
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string. -- George Dennison Prentice
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy. -- Mark Helprin
I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material. -- Emmylou Harris
Cancer is a great wake-up call. A call to take the tag off the new lingerie and wear that black lacy slip. To open the box of pearls and put them on. To crack open the bath oil beads before they shrivel up in a bowl on the toilet tank. -- Regina Brett
Never cast pearls before swine. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Age before beauty, and pearls before swine. -- Dorothy Parker
with her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls ... -- Bob Dylan
Value them; they are pearls of great price -- P. C. Cast
A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls. -- Grace Kelly
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. -- Aberjhani
Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls. -- Lord Byron
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. -- Abdelkader El Djezairi
Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls. -- Charles Spurgeon
For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price. -- Moses ibn Ezra
All religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity. -- Samael Aun Weor
The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls. -- Chris Gardner
In your hands winteris a book with cloud pagesthat snow pearls of love. -- Aberjhani
Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop -- Kobayashi Issa
Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls. -- Anistatia R. Miller
Hasten Little Maiden...stop and listenfor pearls of wisdomstop and listen as the river glistens... -- Muse
Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls. -- Al-Ghazali
As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain. -- Suzanne Collins
They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls. -- Sylvia Plath
Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty! -- Charles Baudelaire
Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine. -- Desiderius Erasmus
That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls. -- Mark Ruffalo
And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls -- Jill Sobule
I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual. -- Oscar Wilde
The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us. -- Kevin Brockmeier
The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness. -- Ai Weiwei
A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles. -- Rumi
For in my nature I quested for beauty, but God, God hath sent me to sea for pearls. -- Christopher Smart
You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls." "It's not a fashion accessory. -- Nora Roberts
Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung. -- William Jones
Your body is sacred. You're far more precious than diamonds and pearls, and you should be covered too. -- Muhammad Ali
The sea hath its pearls The heaven hath its stars But my heart, my heart Has its love. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven. -- Rumi
I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls. -- Daphne du Maurier
If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them. -- Ramakrishna
The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul -- Charles Spurgeon
We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work. -- James Krenov
Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that. -- Tracy Chevalier
Revealing of origin , evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well. -- Seema Gupta
The big news, delicious tidbits, pearls of wisdom -- nicely packaged, constantly updated... What political junkie could ask for more? -- Larry Sabato
Perhaps we are all shells; but some of us have found the pearls inside, and this makes all the difference! -- C. JoyBell C.
Give all your pearls, and the swine will make a pearl necklace, then run off. Don't show all your glory. -- Anthony Liccione
To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea. -- Saib Tabrizi
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul. -- Victor Hugo
God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you, too. -- Rick Warren
Not always can flowers, pearls, poetry, protestations, nor even home in another heart, content the awful soul that dwells in clay. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls. -- Lady Gaga
Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality. -- Anna Quindlen
The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls. -- Karen Karbo
Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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
I'm not afraid of the real truth. There is nothing you can tell me about yourself that is going to make me clutch my pearls. -- Gabrielle Hamilton
Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It is always easy to shine in the dark mud! Choose the difficult task: Amongst the pearls under the sun, try to shine more than them! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Real popularity is taking the time to love others, reaching out, and never being afraid to be the first one dancing. REMEMBER THE GIRL IN PEARLS. -- Maya Van Wagenen
It's an odd thing, happiness. Some people take happiness from gold. Or black pearls. And some of us, far more fortunate, take their happiness from periwinkles. -- Patricia A. McKillip
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too -- Vincent Van Gogh
There is no irritant as painful as an ace up your sleeve that you can never use; it's the kind of thing that causes oysters to produce pearls. -- Sheila Ballantyne
Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken. -- Mu Xin
My dad was in a Beatles cover band. My mom wore Candies and belly buttons. The people in our family were very glamorous. They wore pearls like Jackie O. -- Azita Ghanizada
Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend. -- William Somervile
She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth. -- Victor Hugo
It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price. -- Richard Whately
A new doctor had been sent for, Lazzaro of Pavia, who had administered to Lorenzo a pulverized mixture of diamonds and pearls. This hitherto infallible medicine had failed to help. -- Irving Stone
Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with. -- Karl Lagerfeld
The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury. -- William Blake
Now, see there. Just because I'm wearing my Super-Dike sweatshirt, you think I'm a lesbian. I guess if I were wearing a string of pearls, you'd think I was an oyster. -- Florynce Kennedy
I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there. -- Swami Vivekananda
I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there. -- Swami Vivekananda
Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee. -- William Blake
Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string - the pearls lie scattered on the ground. -- Charles Spurgeon
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
But don't worry; as I've been saying - and this has been very clever of me, I'm sure you'll agree - if you put enough pressure on coal, it'll turn to pearls! -- Suzanne Collins
It's surely one of the strange phenomena of this decade that the most thoughtful gift you can bring a date is not flowers, chocolates, or ankle-length pearls, but a note from your doctor. -- Linda Sunshine
The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls. -- Jean Paul
He that marries is like the dogs who was married to the Adriatic. He knows not what there is in that which he marries; mayhap treasures and pearls, mayhap monsters and tempests, await him. -- Heinrich Heine
I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition. -- Ai Weiwei

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