Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
William Shakespeare

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.
Amy Grant

Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.
Fran Drescher

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best.
Dexter Scott King

Listen, when you take my liberty away, you've taken away more-something more precious than life. I mean, what good is a life without liberty? Huh? None.
Jack Kevorkian

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.
Albert Camus

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Andre Gide

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Al Franken

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.
Judd Nelson

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.
Danielle Steel

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.
Helen Keller

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more precious than independence and liberty.
Ho Chi Minh

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.
Herodotus

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
David Brainerd

One sees a blatant disregard for the precious souls of mankind.
Thomas S. Monson

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!
James Monroe

Our emotional symptoms are precious sources of life and individuality.
Thomas More

Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow - red, yellow, brown, black and white - and we're all precious in God's sight.
Jesse Brown