#diamond

Anyone can be confident with a full head of hair. But a confident bald man - there's your diamond in the rough. ↗

— Larry David

#bald #confident #diamond #full #hair

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#bugs #diamond #fingers #hold #i

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#gold #like #only #owes #praise

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not. ↗

— Jill St. John

#forever #youth

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#always #diamond #fail #father #husband

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold. ↗

— Eartha Kitt

#dirt #gold #i #person #trust

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings. ↗

— Andreas Capellanus

#avarice #consent #could #diamond #earth

It is wrong to wear diamonds before luncheon, except on one’s marriage rings. Before, after, and during breakfast, luncheon and dinner, it is vulgar to wear a mixture of colored precious stones. It is always a comfort to know that so many things one can’t afford to do anyway are vulgar. ↗

— Judith Martin

#etiquette #vulgarity #marriage

That was out of line.” “No, it wasn’t, querida.” He smiled, the devastating smile she found irresistible. “You’re my wife, and you do have an amazing mouth. ↗

— Delaney Diamond

#delaney-diamond #interracial-romance #the-arrangement #men

Invest in the human soul. Who knows, it might be a diamond in the rough. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

#human #human soul #invest #knows #might