“ The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor the man without trials. ”
- Confucius- Copy
- 295
“ Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. ”
- Beatrix Potter- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. ”
- Rebecca West- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ”
- Otto Von Bismarck- Copy
- 702
“ Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. ”
- The Holy Bible- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room. ”
- Horace Walpole- Copy
- 908
“ Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers. ”
- Malcolm S. Forbes- Copy
- 3.1K
“ He who finds diamonds must grapple in mud and mire because diamonds are not found in polished stones. They are made. ”
- Henry B. Wilson- Copy
- 3.4K
“ I can't say anything more about Jeff than what his performance says. He shined in every event he was in. ”
- Kim Williams- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company. ”
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished. ”
- Leslie Nielsen- Copy
- 1.6K
“ When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. ”
- Bob Hope- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Society is now one polished horde, — Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
- 1.4K
“ The youthful sparkle in Ronald Reagan's eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished. ”
- Sheila Graham- Copy
- 112
“ The brightest crowns that are worn in heaven have been tried, and smelted, and polished, and glorified through the furnace of tribulation. ”
- Edward Chapin- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. ”
- Robert Green Ingersoll- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Innocence is like polished armor; it adorns and defends. ”
- Bishop Robert South- Copy
- 962
“ Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 1.8K
“ When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword. ”
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished. ”
- Jean de la Bruyere- Copy
- 678
“ What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures. ”
- Friedrich von Schlegel- Copy
- 3.7K
“ What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase? ”
- Logan Pearsall Smith- Copy
- 459
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