He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think,… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration ... When I… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament. — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
All the manifested world of things and beings are projected by imagination upon the substratum which is the Eternal All-pervading Vishnu, whose… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings. — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
“Lycurgus was of opinion that ornaments were so far from advantaging them in their counsels, that they were rather an hindrance, by… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive… — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
I had hardly expected so dolichocephalic a skull or such well-marked supra-orbital development. Would you have any objection to my running my… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Beside all the moral benefit which we may expect from the farmer's profession, when a man enters it considerately, this promised the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
If those millions squandered on designing missionaries had been deposited in funds for the support of yourselves, when old age, misfortune, or… — Anne Royall Copy Share Image
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
