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• Some asked how pearls did grow, and where? Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl.
  -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearl...
• Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones,--come and buy!
  If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer, there, Where my Julia's lips do smile,-- There 's the land, or cherry-isle....
• When I was one-and-twenty, I heard a wise man say, Give pounds and crowns and guineas, But not your heart away.
  Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free....
• My ATM just asked me if I wanted to go double or nothing!
• The price of wisdom is above rubies. -- Old Testament -- Job xxviii, 18
• Wisdom is better than rubies. -- Old Testament -- Proverbs viii, 11
• Some way to show your gratitude! No gold, no diamonds, no rubies, not even a lousy card!
  Wait a minute... there <was> a card... -- Homer is mad at Mr....
• You say to me-wards your affection 's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.
  -- Robert Herrick (1591-1674) -- Love me Little, Love me Long...
• Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting-stars attend thee
  And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee....