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December: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on your hand a Turquoise blue, Success will bless whate'er you do. If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.— BUNYAN — Apology for his Book. L. 89.

Black is a pearl in a woman's eye.— GEORGE CHAPMAN — An Humorous

Day's Mirth. Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray. C.— ABRAHAM COWLEY — Davideis. Bk. III. L. 37.

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.— GEORGE ELIOT — The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. I.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear.— GRAY — Elegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 14.

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen nor never shall be.— BISHOP HALL — Contemplations. Bk. VI. The Veil of Moses.

Some ask'd how pearls did grow, and where, Then spoke I to my girle, To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl.— HERRICK — The Rock of Rubies, and the

Quarrie of Pearls. And I had lent my watch last night to one That dines to-day at the sheriff's.— BEN JONSON — Alchemist. Act I. Sc. 1.