He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Jewelry maybe is more expensive than clothes, but clothes are more important than jewelry.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural. — Xunzi Copy Share Image
I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it! — Hoda Kotb Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“He was to be the sun that would ripen the crowd for carving skin instead of wooden ornaments.” — Nick Oliveri Copy Share Image
A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at… — Henry Anatole Grunwald Copy Share Image
The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Now you've a clean start... you've brushed three or four ornaments down, and in a fit of pique knocked off the rest… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book,… — James Wright Copy Share Image
Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements,… — Richard Hooker Copy Share Image
I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
We are often struck by the force and precision of style to which hard-working men, unpracticed in writing, easily attain when required… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
As the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep.… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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