Quotes About Treasure

May the dragon you find be well fed.

it was indeed 'as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there'.

I felt mildly peculiar to be treasuring love letters for their grammar, but there was nothing else I could treasure them for.

I found something Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me. It was taped to the back of my dresser drawer. What do you think? Buried treasure? Secret passageway? Locked room where they keep crazy old Aunt Edna? It probaly unlocks another dresser, Tori said. One they threw out fifty years ago. Its tragic, being born without an imagination. Do they hold telethons for that?

To give up happiness like this is like throwing jewels into the ocean. It's far worse than any sin.

Books may be the most valuable treasure of knowledge, but it is the human mind, that turns that knowledge into wisdom.

Your mind is a key, and whatever it unlocks, the greatest treasure of all.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country's greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Knowledge is the Treasure, but Judgment the Treasurer of a Wise Man.

The purest treasure mortal times afford, is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, But gold that's put to use more gold begets.

Rich honesty dwells like a miser, sir, in a poor house, as your pearl in your foul oyster.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.

This is fairy gold, boy, and 'twill prove so.

She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold.

Poetry Its door opens near. It's a shrine by the road, it's a flower in the parking lot of The Pentagon, it says, "Look around, listen. Feel the air." It interrupts international telephone lines with a tune. When traffic lines jam, it gets out and dances on the bridge. If great people get distracted by fame they forget this essential kind of breathing and they die inside their gold shell. When caravans cross deserts it is the secret treasure hidden under the jewels.

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.

books are yours, Within whose silent chambers treasure lies Preserved from age to age; more precious far Than that accumulated store of gold And orient gems, which, for a day of need, The Sultan hides deep in ancestral tombs. These hoards of truth you can unlock at will:

Yet in the agony of my spirit in surrendering such a treasure I feel a thousand times richer than if I had never possessed it.