#treasure

The public treasure has been duly applied to the uses to which it was appropriated by Parliament, and regular accounts have been annually laid before Parliament, of every article of expense. ↗

— Robert Walpole

#annually #applied #appropriated #article #been

I don't have anything that I treasure at all. They're just things. I tend to buy an awful lot of stuff, like clothes and things. But I wouldn't be bothered if my house burns down tomorrow. ↗

— Robbie Williams

#awful #bothered #burns #buy #clothes

I am not a poor child, Lady Eleanor," Madelyne announced, letting her anger sound in her voice. "Duncan won't marry you. He won't sign the contracts. He'd have to give up his greatest treasure in order to marry you." "And what be that treasure?" Lady Eleanor inquired, her voice mild. "Why, I'm Duncan's greatest treasure. He'd be a fool to give me up," she added. "And even you must know that Duncan is anything but a fool. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#love #treasure #anger

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cell-phones #heaven #heavenly #man #mobile

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#ray-bradbury #trash #treasure #writing #art

The Sun in London ran a front page declaring my bum a national treasure. I really did laugh at that. Its not like it can actually do anything, except wiggle. ↗

— Kylie Minogue

#anything #bum #declaring #did #except

I have often noticed that after I had bestowed on the characters of my novels some treasured item of my past, it would pine away in the artificial world where I had so abruptly placed it. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#after #artificial #away #bestowed #characters

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

#great #make #miracles #store #those

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#enjoy #health #hoard #like #misers

Sleep my little baby-oh Sleep until you waken When you wake you'll see the world If I'm not mistaken... Kiss a lover Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure... Face your life Its pain, Its pleasure, Leave no path untaken. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#choice #dance #identity #individuality #life