Rubies Quotes
89 quotes by 72 authors
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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
— Robert Herrick
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
— A. E. Housman
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emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...
— Anne Sexton
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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…
— William Blake
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Good advice is rarer than rubies.
— Salman Rushdie
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We've never had nannies. We've had great grandparents, great support from family, and the kids have been on every set: they've seen me play Gollum,…
— Andy Serkis
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At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make…
— Clint Eastwood
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I mean, how many young women get a set of rubies just for doing something wholesome like swimming laps? Or win a diamond ring at…
— Elizabeth Taylor
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Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but if it became…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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What a time herbs and weeds, and such things could talk, A man in his garden one day did walk, Spying a nettle green (as…
— John Heywood
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Easy-to know that diamonds-are precious, Good-to learn that rubies-have depth, But more-to see that pebbles-are miraculous.
— Josef Albers
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Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe them is a matter of inexpressible difficulty. For there is amongst them the…
— Pliny the Elder
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A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A stone is many…
— Saadi
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You have no need to travel anywhere - journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.
— Rumi
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Don't run away from grief, o’ soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came…
— Rumi
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We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a…
— Alfred Kastler
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I didn't work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone, because you feel differently from me. No language can be perfect for everyone. I tried…
— Yukihiro Matsumoto
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Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver,…
— Solomon
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Let the splendor of diamond, pearl and ruby vanish? Only let this one teardrop, this Taj Mahal, glisten spotlessly bright on the cheek of time,…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
— Samuel Rutherford
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