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Porcelain Quotes

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

Henry Ward Beecher
Character, Color, Porcelain
Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

The porcelain rose is not as pretty as the one that decays.

Eric G. Wilson
Rose, Decay, Porcelain
Eric G. Wilson (2008). “Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy”, p.110, Macmillan

Respect people who trust you. It takes a lot for people to trust you, so treat their trust like precious porcelain.

Brandon Cox
Trust, People, Porcelain

Fantasy is one of the soul's brighter porcelains.

Pat Conroy
Soul, Fantasy, Porcelain

And Sandy Martindale ... dated Elvis before the rhinestone jumpsuits and the drugs, when he was sharp and cool and jagged, like porcelain that has been hurled against a wall.

Rick Bragg
Wall, Drug, Porcelain

If you ask someone whether our Constitutional rights are being flushed down the porcelain oubliette, and their response is, "If I answer that honestly they'll arrest me," then you already have your answer.

Robert X. Cringely
Rights, Answers, Porcelain
"Personal Email and Private Clouds Fall in War on Privacy". www.infoworld.com. August 09, 2013.

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