Top 205 Pearls Quotes & Sayings

Dive into the sea of thought, and find there pearls beyond price.

At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.

Aunt Loretta has something that maybe you could call class. It's not the made-up kind that Grandma has, fake pearls and Sunday hats, but something that comes to you as if you were born to the king and queen. Aunt Loretta understands better than Grandma that reading a big book is more classy than wearing fake pearls watching TV.

A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.

Never cast pearls before swine.

But pearls are fair; and the old saying is: Black men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes.

The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual.

My style was nostalgic and involved pearls and penny loafers, always with the pennies in them.

Giddy grasshopper Take care...do not leap and crush These pearls of dewdrop

She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.

The fantasy we had with pearls was always so luxurious and unique with a kind of rareness.

Yet is there one true line, the pearl of pearls: Man dreams of Fame while woman wakes to love.

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

Imagination transforms one substance into another. It changes what is into what might be, what was into what might have been. Straw becomes gold, gold straw, and neither is more real nor, I submit, more precious than the other. Pebbles turn into luminous pearls and pearls into little gray rocks, both solid and beautiful, both essential. Human beings take shape from clay, angels' wings are spun out of water, fire gives rise to the long tongues of demons, love emerges out of thin air, and the basic elements reconstitute themselves again and again.

That's what I love about music...all these banalities suddenly turn into these beautiful, effervescent pearls.

In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.

If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

Hey, look at this!" He holds up a glistening, perfect pearl about the size of a pea. "You know, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns to pearls," he says earnestly to Finnick. "No, it doesn't," says Finnick dismissively. But I crack up, remembering that's how a clueless Effie Trinket presented us to the people of the Capitol last year, before anyone knew us. As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.

The diver plunges deep to find pearls, and we must accept any labor or hazard to win a soul

Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough, measles, loss of virility, and bed-wetting ... Though nobody seems to advertise the potential for pearls to cure bed-wetting anymore.

Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

I think I have been much of my life an irritant. But some people say that something good came out of my research, something valuable that could be regarded as a pearl, and I can assure those who worked with me it was you who made the pearls and I was merely the grain of sand, the irritant to produce the pearls.

There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish to posses spiritual pearls we must plunge into the depths, that is, we must pray, we must sink down into the secret depths of contemplation and prayer. Then we shall perceive precious pearls.

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

Pearls mean tears.

Pearls are always appropriate.

When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

Pearls ... have a way of dying when separated from their owner.

For a hungry man, green peas are more shiny than gleaming pearls.

Pearls, including cheap ones, are always in good taste.

Value them; they are pearls of great price

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I love how easy pearls are to wear with anything and everything.

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

We follow a path of discovery, strung like pearls on a thread of curiosity, lending richness to our work.

Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls.

Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string - the pearls lie scattered on the ground.

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.

Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.

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

I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

But pearls are for tears, the old legend says," Gilbert had objected. "I'm not afraid of that. And tears can be happy as well as sad. My very happiest moments have been when I had tears in my eyes—when Marilla told me I might stay at Green Gables—when Matthew gave me the first pretty dress I ever had—when I heard that you were going to recover from the fever. So give me pearls for our troth ring, Gilbert, and I'll willingly accept the sorrow of life with its joy." -Anne

Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls.

All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.

As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.

I think the pearls - one is a necklace, and another you have five hundred pounds of pearls, which may be one million pearls in a bowl - really show a kind of [society] condition.

Learn to recognize the false dawn from the true; distinguish the color of the wine from the color of the cup. Then it may be that patience and time may produce, out of the spectrum-viewing sight, true vision, and you will behold colors other than these mortal hues, you will see pearls instead of stones. Pearls, did I say? Nay more, you will become a sea, you will become a sun traveling the sky.

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

I am not gay, I just like pearls.

I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.