Famous quotes containing the words precious and/or metals:
“Gaze not on a maid, that thou fall not be by those things that are precious to her.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 9:5.
“As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one’s soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)