Quotes about Gems
It cannot be valued in the gold of Ophir, in precious onyx or sapphire.
- Job 28:16
How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
- Lamentations 4:1
Wisdom is finer than pearls.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
- George Eliot
Truth is the first of jewels.
- Margaret Fuller
It is strange how deeply colors seem to penetrate one, like scent. I suppose that is the reason why gems are used as spiritual emblems in the Revelation of St John. They look like fragments of heaven. I think the emerald is more beautiful than any of them.
- George Eliot
Sweet the coming on. Of grateful evening mild; then silent night. With this her solemn bird and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train.
- John Milton
The short sayings of the wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks of diamonds.
- John Tillotson
To change one's disposition is a greater achievement than to change one's dress. It is harder for us to part with arrogance than with gold and gems.
- Jerome
There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth.
- Philip James Bailey