Gold! gold! gold! gold!
Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
Thomas Hood

Opal is the multi-gem.
Astrid Alauda

Diamonds are only chunks of coal,
That stuck to their jobs, you see.
Minnie Richard Smith

There are worlds in an opal.
Astrid Alauda

Perhaps time’s definition of coal is the diamond.
Kahlil Gibran

The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens.
Author Unknown

Jewelry takes people’s minds off your wrinkles.
Sonja Henie

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.
George Eliot

I have always felt a gift diamond shines so much better than one you buy for yourself.
Mae West

I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number of carats in a diamond.
Mae West

Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
Colette

No gold-digging for me; I take diamonds! We may be off the gold standard someday.
Mae West

This diamond has so many carats it’s almost a turnip.
Richard Burton

I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever.
Anita Loos

My husband gave me a necklace. It’s fake. I requested fake. Maybe I’m paranoid, but in this day and age, I don’t want something around my neck that’s worth more than my head.
Rita Rudner

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Rich and rare were the gems she wore,
And a bright gold ring on her hand she bore.
Thomas Moore

Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
Mark Twain

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

The three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering.
Author Unknown

I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner

A woman wears her tears like jewelry.
Author Unknown

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 Dal�

For me the diamond dawns are set
In rings of beauty…
John Townsend Trowbridge

If my love to you can’t be said in a posy, it can’t be said in a library.
Grey Livingston

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle

Our love is a posy
Encircling our lives.
Grey Livingston

Some asked me where the rubies grew,
And nothing I did say;
But with my finger pointed to
The lips of Julia.
Robert Herrick

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls.
Jean de la Bruyere

The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
Kahlil Gibran

Some men’s memory is like a box where a man should mingle his jewels with his old shoes.
George Savile

Gold cannot be pure, and people cannot be perfect.
Chinese Proverb

I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Titus Maccius Plautus

Not on one strand are all life’s jewels strung.
William Morris

I prefer liberty to chains of diamonds.
Mary Worley Montagu

Many individuals have, like uncut diamonds, shining qualities beneath a rough exterior.
Juvenal

In the age of acorns, before the times of Ceres, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds of the mines of India.
Henry Brooke

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.
Benjamin Franklin

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
William R. Alger

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Mahatma Gandhi

Why is it that men can be bastards and women must wear pearls and smile?
Lynn Hecht Schafren

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
Federico Fellini

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac

The most precious jewels are not made of stone, but of flesh.
Robert Ludlum

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.
Lemuel K. Washburn

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Chinese Proverb

Brief as the posy
Briefer yet my time
on earth with you.
Marry me.
Grey Livingston

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.
Peter Marshall

Diamonds are a girl’s best friend and a man’s worst enemy.
Author Unknown

I had very good dentures once. Some magnificent gold work. It’s the only form of jewelry a man can wear that women fully appreciate.
Graham Greene

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman

I’ve been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I’ve lost a total of 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet.
Erma Bombeck

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.
Author Unknown

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray