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
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
Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose,… — Friedrich Schiller 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
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
The feel of the place was deep, the prehistoric heartbeat of the rocks complicating the music, the people bright, all different kinds… — Jason Burke Copy Share Image
The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and… — Nicholas Murray Butler Copy Share Image
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. — Democritus Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell 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
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
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
Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a… — Oscar Wilde 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
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. — Oliver Goldsmith 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
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
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
