A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
Paul Scofield
A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
George Dennison Prentice
Even pearls are dark before the whiteness of his teeth.
William R. Alger
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden
I am not gay, I just like pearls.
Julian Eltinge
I like to think about stringing songs together like a string of pearls, or a string of beads, but ultimately it has to be stuff that really works with the band, and gives a spin to the older material.
Emmylou Harris
In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.
Honore de Balzac
Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them.
Joseph Addison
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
Gertrude Stein
Next to sound judgment, diamonds and pearls are the rarest things in the world.
Jean de la Bruyere
Pearls mean tears.
Doris Lessing
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
Mark Helprin
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