Ornament Quotes
117 quotes by 92 authors
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
— Aristotle
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Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
— Aristotle
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Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
— Joseph Addison
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
— Edmund Burke
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Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate…
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I…
— Nicolas Cage
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Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and…
— Vita Sackville-West
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There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.
— John Ruskin
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At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be…
— John Donne
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Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.
— Thomas Otway
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Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every…
— Henry David Thoreau
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He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The hair is the richest ornament of women.
— Martin Luther
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But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered…
— Francis Bacon
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church…
— Igor Stravinsky
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Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament…
— Roland Barthes
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The modern university does not exist to teach alone...It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament...The university…
— Nicholas Murray Butler
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I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.
— Samuel Adams
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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
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Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity.
— Gary Busey
Who Wrote These Ornament Quotes
92 authors contributed a total of 117 Ornament Quotes, led by these top contributors: