Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust Like diamonds we are cut with our own dust
No pressure, no diamonds.
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
I adore Wilkie Collins,†Tessa cried. “Oh—Armadale! And The Woman in White … Are you laughing at me?†“Not at you,†said Will, grinning, “more because of you. I’ve never seen anyone get so excited over books before. You’d think they were diamonds.†“Well, they are, aren’t they? Isn’t there anything you love like that? And don’t say ‘spats’ or ‘lawn tennis’ or something silly.†“Good Lord,†he said with mock horror, “it’s like she knows me already.
Of two hearts one is always warm and one is always cold: the cold heart is more precious than diamonds: the warm heart has no value and is thrown away.
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Everyone values things differently. In other words, they place their own value on everything that affects their lives. Also from moment to moment they may even change their values. Such as a person, who values diamonds above all else, might be willing to trade a gallon of diamonds for a drink of water to save his life in a desert. What this means is value is a relative thing depending on a need or a perceived need. Yet, how many people will argue and even violently fight over the perceived value of something or some idea only later have an entirely different view point or value.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.