Ornaments Quotes

148 Ornaments quotes by 124 unique authors

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
Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity. — Gary Busey
True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park.… — Frank Lloyd Wright
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments… — Henry David Thoreau
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not… — Richard Baxter
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to… — W. Somerset Maugham
I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood... I… — Michel de Montaigne
You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August. — David Carson
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a… — Mark Twain
Tragedy was foresworn, in ritual denial of the ripe knowledge that we are drawing away from one another, that we share only one thing, share… — William Gaddis
I am glad that the life of pandas is so dull by human standards, for our efforts at conservation have little moral value if we… — Stephen Jay Gould
I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the Church is a… — Pope Pius XII
But the building's identity resided in the ornament. — Louis Sullivan
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love… — Christopher Wren
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built… — John Owen
The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by… — Ramana Maharshi
The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're… — David Lee
The quasi-peaceable gentleman of leisure, then, not only consumes of the staff of life beyond the minimum required for subsistence and physical efficiency, but his… — Thorstein Veblen
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,… — Joseph Addison
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty of… — Gustav Stickley
Ornaments were invented by modesty. — Joseph Joubert
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to frequent their company… — Saint Francis de Sales
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of… — William Blackstone
Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. If noble actions are the substance of life, good sayings are its ornament and… — Charles Simmons
Simplicity is not about making something without ornament, but rather about making something very complex, then slicing elements away, until you reveal the very essence. — Christoph Niemann

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