Ornamental Quotes

37 quotes by 32 authors

Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the… — Joseph Black
Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional. — Edward Abbey
I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing. — Fernando Pessoa
The sanserif only seems to be the simpler script. It is a form that was violently reduced for little children. For adults it is more… — Jan Tschichold
I once painted a concert singer and on the chestnut frame I carved the opening bars of Mendelssohn's Rest in the Lord. It was ornamental… — Thomas Eakins
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher… — Joseph Addison
Art is not just ornamental, an enhancement of life. It is a path in itself, a way out of the predictable and conventional... a map… — Gabrielle Roth
We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be… — Erich Maria Remarque
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a… — A B Simpson
For books [Charles Darwin] had no respect, but merely considered them as tools to be worked with. ... he would cut a heavy book in… — Francis Darwin
It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the 70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in… — Ann Wilson
It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. — A B Simpson
What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of… — Alan Watts
The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is… — Lydia Sigourney
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose. — Richard Whately
Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental. — William Hogarth
The passenger train is like the male teat - neither useful nor ornamental. — James J. Hill
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There was a piece of ornamental water immediately below the parapet, on the other side, into which Mr. James Harthouse had a very strong inclination… — Charles Dickens
The hallway was lined with numbered doors, odd numbers on one side and even numbers on the other, and large ornamental vases, too large to… — Daniel Handler

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