Ornaments Quotes

Ornaments Quote of the day

Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August.

The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory.

The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.

It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago

Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Manners are the ornament of action.

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

Clearness is the ornament of deep thought.

We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity.