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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
Hostility towards Microsoft is not difficult to find on the Net, and it blends two strains: resentful people who feel Microsoft is too powerful, and… — Neal Stephenson
A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze… — Joshilyn Jackson
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 ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of… — Isaac D'Israeli
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
As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine… — Michel de Montaigne
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
The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms… — Lord Byron
The economy is still substantially that of the fur trade, still based on the same general kinds of commercial items: technology, weapons, ornaments, novelties, and… — Wendell Berry
I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful form; it's just… — Pipilotti Rist
Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause… — Leo Tolstoy
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. — Luc de Clapiers
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
You see, for me [art]'s not one of life's ornaments, rococo relaxation to be greeted affably after a day of hard work; I'm inverted on… — Arno Hintjens
Why would you want to keep the bluebird houses mounted in a place that you now know is unsafe for them? Bluebirds are not ornaments… — Kathy Griffin

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