Studies 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
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This… — Robert Schumann Copy Share Image
True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches… — Joshilyn Jackson Copy Share Image
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions. — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not… — Jack W. Hayford Copy Share Image
Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich. — Diogenes Copy Share Image
The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August. — David Carson Copy Share Image
One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give! — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
You talk to me in parables. You may have known that I'm no wordy man, Fine speeches are the instruments of knaves… — Thomas Otway Copy Share Image
