J is for JEWELS

Posy and pearls
Amethyst and gold
Forever you and I
Our precious love to hold.

Astrid Alauda



Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God....

Thomas De Quincey



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



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

Robert Ludlum



“The jewel of the soul is priceless, and yet it is being squandered like this, in exchange for a mere shell.”

Sri Guru Granth Sahib quotes



“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.”

Richard Bach



“She is mine own,
And I as rich in having such a jewel
As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl,
The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.”

William Shakespeare



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

George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross), The Spanish Gypsy (bk. I)



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, Les Caracteres (XII)



Take that life, beseech you,
Which I so often owe; but your ring first,
And here the bracelet of the truest princess
That ever swore her faith.

William Shakespeare, Cymbeline



The lively Diamond drinks thy purest rays,
Collected light, compact.

James Thomson (1), Seasons--Summer



“Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls.”

William Shakespeare



“Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it”

Mark Twain



There is in them a softer fire than the ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the amethyst, and the sea green of the emerald - all shining together in incredible union. Some by their splendor rival the colors of the painters, others the flame of burning sulphur or of fire quickened by oil.

Pliny, about the opal



There are worlds in an opal.

Astrid Alauda



Perhaps time's definition of coal is the diamond.

Kahlil Gibran



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

Ralph Waldo Emerson



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

Mark Twain