His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb. Jorge Luis Borges
The artist who parades his drawing, the writer who wishes to attract praise to his style, resemble the soldier who plumes himself on his unif onn but refuses to go into battle, or the farmer who polishes the ploughshare instead of driving it into the earth. Auguste Rodin
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. Thomas Carlyle
I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them. G. Hannelius
We can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Bill Gates is never going to be Bill Clinton, no matter how he polishes his social skills, and Bill Clinton can never be Bill Gates, no matter how much time he spends alone with a computer. Susan Cain
Absence polishes passion, presence reinforces it. Togolese Proverb