Mechanic's Ring

No gold, no Holy Ghost. - Samuel Butler

The law itself follows gold. - Propertius

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

It ain't exactly the Pope diamond. - Archie Bunker

Diamonds are forever, my youth is not. - Jill St John

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. - Confucius

The ring always believes that the finger lives for it. - Malcolm de Chazal

Where you stumble and fall, there you discover the gold. - Joseph Campbell

Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs. - Malcolm Forbes

It is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. - Mark Twain

Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki. - Nigel Starmer-Smith

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. - Thomas Browne

I do not want horses or diamonds - I am happy in possessing you. - Clara Schumann

Rappers wear diamonds to compensate for a lack of fashion sense. - Asap Rocky

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - Mark Twain

You meet your friend, your face brightens - you have struck gold. - Kassia

Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. - Robert G Ingersoll

A diamond is just a piece of coal that handles stress exceptionally well. - Unknown

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold. - Eartha Kitt

Key Ring: A handy little gadget that allows you to lose all your keys at once - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold. - Chinese Proverb

Never knock on death's door. Ring the bell and run away. Death hates that. - Matt Frewer

A diamond, though set in horns, is still a diamond, and sparkles in purest gold. - Philip Massinger

The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words. - William H Gass

Life without endeavor is like entering a jewel mine and coming out with empty hands. - Japanese Proverb

I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. - Groucho Marx

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - JRR Tolkien

In two decades I've lost a total of 789 pounds. I should be hanging from a charm bracelet. - Erma Bombeck

I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me his watch. - Woody Allen

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. - Mark Russell

Every diamond has the ability to shine when there is someone to recognize its good facets and inhibit its flaws. - Wes Fesler

Gold and diamonds are nice, but clean, crisp, controlled water has long been the preeminent hallmark of the rich. - Anthony Doerr

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. - R. Buckminster Fuller

A diamond was laying in the street covered with dirt. Many fools passed by. Someone who knew diamonds picked it up. - Kabir

I think hearts are very much like glasses - if they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time. - Letitia Landon

Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. - Ogden Nash

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul. - Theodore Parker

In this year, King Aethelstan, Lord of Warriors, ring-giver to men... won eternal glory, in battle with sword edges, around Brunaburh. - Unknown

I formed a new group called Alcoholics-Unanimous. If you don't feel like a drink, you ring another member and he comes over to persuade you. - Richard Harris

The diamond has been always esteemed the rarest stone, and the most precious of all: among the ancients it was called the stone of reconciliation. - Lewis Vertoman