Ornament Quotes

117 Ornament quotes by 92 unique authors

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. — Anzia Yezierska
On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul,… — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet. Thus,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind. — Leonardo da Vinci
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. — Charles Lamb
Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The… — Thomas Carlyle
Silence is an ornament for women. — Sophocles
Most works are most beautiful without ornament. — Walt Whitman
Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens. — Marie-Luise Gothein
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most… — Henry Anatole Grunwald
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — William Shakespeare
Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not… — Joseph Addison
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old. — Aristotle
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament. — Sophocles
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A… — Adolf Loos
If the bees which seek the liquid oozing from the head of a lust-intoxicated elephant are driven away by the flapping of his ears, then… — Chanakya
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. — Charles Jencks
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. — Charles Caleb Colton
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. — Mahatma Gandhi
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has… — Rem Koolhaas
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in… — T.E. Lawrence
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll… — Marilyn Monroe
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. — Alanis Morissette

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