Ornaments Quotes - Page 2

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

Plato defines melody to consist of harmony, number and words: harmony naked of itself, words the ornament of harmony, number the common friend and uniter of them both.

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. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented

Silence is an ornament for women.

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain.

Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.

Manners are the ornament of action.

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural.

Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste.

The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence.

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 preserve creatures only as human ornaments; I shall be impressed when we show solicitude for warty toads and slithering worms.

Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction.

I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security.

Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.