Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I happen to love creating handmade ornaments even when I mess up I still have fun. — Hilary Farr Copy Share Image
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. — Munshi Premchand Copy Share Image
Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities. — Vladimir Nabokov 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
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their… — Abigail Adams Copy Share Image
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common… — John Dowland Copy Share Image
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and… — Saint Augustine 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
Plutarch has a fine expression, with regard to some woman of learning, humility, and virtue;--that her ornaments were such as might be… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are… — Francis Bacon 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
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical… — Thorstein Veblen 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
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
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
If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to… — Sara Shepard Copy Share Image
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Esenin quotes ancient legends to prove his point. Then he speaks of the different ornaments adorning the farmer's house, such as the… — Frances De Graaff 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
... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb 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
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
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
Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens. — Marie-Luise Gothein Copy Share Image
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind. — Elizabeth Aston 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
I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct? — Sophocles Copy Share Image
In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with… — William Shakespeare 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
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
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
