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
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — Anonymous 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
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the… — Mark Twain 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
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
Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And… — Patricia Briggs 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
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When a rainbow appears vividly in the sky, you can see its beautiful colors, yet you could not wear as clothing or… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow. — Mahatma Gandhi 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
The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft… — Samuel Johnson 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
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around… — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace The naked nature and the living grace, With gold and jewels cover ev'ry part, And… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens. — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a… — John Milton Copy Share Image
