Irregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius, who are often too full to be exact, and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader, rather than be at the pains of stringing them. Joseph Addison
These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread. James Russell Lowell
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. William Shakespeare
Pearls are of no value in a desert. Hindi Proverb
Pearls are worthless in the desert. Hindi Proverb
Those who wear pearls do not know how often the shark bites the leg of the diver. African Proverb