Ornaments Quotes
When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.
Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament.
Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.
Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments.
What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.
The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities.
What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.
How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.
All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.
The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner.
Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens.
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments.
The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.
There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.
Men subsequently put whatever is newly learned or experienced to use as a plowshare, perhaps even as a weapon: but women immediately include it among their ornaments.
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.
... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.
Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord.
Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.
The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry.
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
She lives in a world of her own – a world of – little glass ornaments…
Jewelry maybe is more expensive than clothes, but clothes are more important than jewelry.
