Precious

Famous quotes containing the word precious:

    Sweet are the uses of adversity
    Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
    Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The house-dog lost,
    the little hen escaped,
    the precious hay-rick scattered,
    Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    What we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)