Pearls mean tears. [ Lessing ]
Give not pearls to the hogs. [ Proverb ]
Some asked how pearls did grow, and where,
Then spoke I to my girle,
To part her lips, and showed them there
The quarrelets of pearl. [ Robert Herrick ]
These grains of gold are not grains of wheat!
These bars of silver thou canst not eat;
These jewels and pearls and precious stones
Cannot cure the aches in thy bones,
Nor keep the feet of death one hour
From climbing the stairways of thy tower. [ Longfellow ]
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow;
He who would search for pearls must dive below. [ Dryden ]
Twas he that ranged the words at random flung,
Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung. [ Firdousi ]
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. [ Abd el-Kader ]
A proverb says: A hearth of one's own and a good wife are worth gold and pearls. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine. [ Jesus ]
The rarest things in world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [ La Bruyere ]
Apothegms are, in history, the same as the pearls in the sand, or the gold in the mine. [ Erasmus ]
After the spirit of discernment, the next rarest things in the world are diamonds and pearls. [ La Bruyère ]
I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, that shows at the same time pearls and the soul. [ Victor Hugo ]
Up, up, fair bride! and call thy stars from out their several boxes; take thy rubies, pearls, and diamonds forth, and make thyself a constellation of them all. [ Donne ]
The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flintstone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. [ Saadi ]
Men of great learning or genius are too full to be exact, and therefore choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. [ Spectator ]
The effusions of genius, or rather the manifestations of what is called talent, are often the effects of distempered nerves and complexional spleen, as pearls are morbid secretions. [ Robert Walsh ]
That same dew, which sometime on the buds was wont to swell, like round and orient pearls, stood now within the pretty flowerets' eyes, like tears that did their own disgrace bewail. [ William Shakespeare ]
The artist is the child in the popular fable, every one of whose tears was a pearl. Ah! the world, that cruel step-mother, beats the poor child the harder to make him shed more pearls. [ Heinrich Heine ]
At the morning hour, when the half-awakened sun, trampling down the lingering shadows of the west, spreads his ruby-tinted tresses over jessamines and roses, drying with cloths of gold Aurora's tears of mingled fire and snow, which the sun's rays converted into pearls. [ Calderon ]