Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. — Anzia Yezierska Copy Share Image
A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments. — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind. — Elizabeth Aston 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
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you… — David Lee Copy Share Image
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Books are the food of youth, the delight of old age; the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity; a… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago — Tom Baker Copy Share Image
A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of… — Thomas Jefferson 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
Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up. — Hilda Scott Copy Share Image
Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
