It takes talent to please the people in a sermon by a flowery style, a cheerful ethic, brilliant sallies and lively descriptions;… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Nor do we accept, as genuine the person not characterized by this blushing bashfulness, this youthfulness of heart, this sensibility to the… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
I love art, and I love history, but it is living art and living history that I love. It is in the… — William Morris Copy Share Image
I think that the new models of Chevrolet should have Barney Frank as a hood ornament. — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation.… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
