Ornaments Quotes
148 quotes by 124 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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Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
— Francis Bacon
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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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Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.
— Ed Coan
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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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No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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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 brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The hair is the richest ornament of women.
— Martin Luther
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The great end of prudence is to give cheerfulness to those hours which splendour cannot gild, and acclamation cannot exhilarate; those soft intervals of unbended…
— Samuel Johnson
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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 history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.
— Virginia Woolf
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