Precious

Famous quotes containing the word precious:

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

“Malcolm. Dispute it like a man.
Macduff. I shall do so;
But I must also feel it as a man.
I cannot but remember such things were
That were most precious to me.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Time was when genius was more precious than gold, but
now to have nothing is monstrous barbarism.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)