Ornaments Quotes

148 quotes by 124 authors

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. — Francis Bacon
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. — Joseph Addison
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. — Edmund Burke
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
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
Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree. — Ed Coan
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
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. — John Ruskin
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
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
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain. — Thomas Otway
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
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth. — Alphonsus Liguori
The hair is the richest ornament of women. — Martin Luther
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
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
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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