Quotes of Precious - somelinesforyou

“ I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honor more. ”

- Richard Lovelace

“ After all, my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished, need we say it was no love, just because it perished? ”

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

“ It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved. ”

- Brenda Fassie

“ Two darling sons, and a brother, have I lost by savage hands, which have also taken from me forty valuable horses, and abundance of cattle. ”

- Daniel Boone

“ Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake. ”

- Donald J. Walters

“ It is true that liberty is precious. So precious that it must be rationed. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ Let me tell thee, time is a very precious gift of God; so precious that He only gives it to us moment by moment. He would not have thee waste it. ”

- Amelia E. Barr

“ Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Precious was one of a large number of people on the street, many of whom appeared to be women; some, like Precious, actually were. ”

- Jimmy Breslin

“ Whatever has anything very precious to give also requires that the something very precious given in return. ”

- Elizabeth O’Connor

“ Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship. ”

- Billy Graham

“ Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious. ”

- William Hale White

“ A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life. ”

- John Milton

“ Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. ”

- Edward Dahlberg

“ In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. ”

- Mark Twain

“ All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. ”

- Homer

“ The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers. ”

- Thich Nhat Hanh

“ The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels. ”

- Inayat Khan

“ Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. ”

- Cicero

“ Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue. ”

- Sir Francis Bacon

“ The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life. ”

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“ There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. ”

- Kurt Vonnegut

“ The truth is so precious that she must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. ”

- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

“ Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else. ”

- Mitch Albom

“ Pain is a very precious gift. Do not waste it. ”

- Martha Singleterry

“ Our friendships are precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life;and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part is sunshine. ”

- Thomas Jefferson
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