1.
Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah’s plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee.
Omar Khayyam
2.
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
Anthony Trollope
3.
An inch of time on the sundial is worth more than a foot of jade.
Confucius
4.
Too much success is not an advantage.
Do not tinkle like jade
Or clatter like stone chimes.
Laozi
5.
Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it’s exciting, and if you do it every day it’s exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it’s not good any more.
Andy Warhol
6.
I am so glad I found you and didn't kill you" - Mara Jade Skywalker to Luke Skywalker
Michael A. Stackpole
7.
Better stop short than fill to the brim. Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt. Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.
Laozi
8.
Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.
Laozi
11.
Is he all right?" Jade asked Sterns. He Swooned" I know he swooned," Jade replied.
Julie Garwood
12.
Only you're right in saying she's too good an opinion of herself to think of you. The saucy jade! I should like to know where she'd find a better!
Elizabeth Gaskell