The narrow bud opens her beauties toThe sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins;Blossoms hang round the brows of morning, andFlourish down the bright cheek of modest eve...
~William Blake (1757-1827), "To Autumn"
The earth is like a beautiful bride who needs no manmade jewels to heighten her loveliness.
~Kahlil Gibran
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 Dalí
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.
~William Penn
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
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
The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.
~Willa Sibert Cather
Red is passion-lit, orange is flowerageous, yellow is suntastic, pink is lipsensual, green is lifebursting, blue is skyful, purple is berrydancing, gray is cloudrainy.
~Terri Guillemets
Love - a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker.
~Author Unknown
Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too
long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for
those who love, time is eternity.
~Henry Van Dyke
