#treasure

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#priorities #treasure #men

Women are pleasured treasures. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#pleasure #relationships #treasures #women #relationship

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living. ↗

— Rudolf Arnheim

#adapt #american #asked #country #customs

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#made #possession #riches #them #treasures

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive. ↗

— Jane Campion

#believe #compulsive #courage #dangerously #ends

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#go #heaven #perfect #poor #possessions

What bugs me is that movies don't reflect how interesting and vibrant women are. We don't treasure women as they get older. ↗

— Jill Clayburgh

#bugs #get #how #interesting #me

I can't tell you what an honor it is, to even be mentioned in the same breath with Arthur Ashe. This is something I certainly will treasure forever. ↗

— Jim Valvano

#arthur ashe #ashe #breath #certainly #even

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#gold #helping #into #paradise #possesses

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. ↗

— John Donne

#any #enough #hath #man #man hath