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Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. -- St. Jerome
Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. -- Ludovico Ariosto
Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. -- James Montgomery
Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works. -- Miroslav Volf
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. -- Plautus
When the truth is spoken, it doesn't need to be adorned. It just needs to be simply stated, and often it only needs to be said once. -- James Nachtwey
This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments. -- Johann Arndt
Many Americans have a romanticized view of trains, rooted in a bygone era of elaborately adorned rail cars lit by flickering gas lamps and pulled by smoke-belching steam locomotives. -- Alan Huffman
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. -- H. L. Mencken
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts. -- Vitruvius
The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind. -- Lactantius
When I was growing up, yearning with my pals to be a track star, one of our heroes was Bruce Jenner. He won a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in the decathlon, and he adorned our Wheaties boxes. We all wanted to be Bruce Jenner. -- Nicholas Kristof
We know a great deal about the configuration of the menorah from the biblical book of Exodus. Beaten out of solid gold, the ancient candelabrum boasted six branches emerging from a seventh, its central shaft. The menorah was adorned with golden buttons, cups, and flowers. -- Meir Soloveichik
In naked beauty most adorned. -- John Milton
... my mother adorned with flowers whatever shabby house we were forced to live in. -- Alice Walker
He adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon, by the most splendid eloquence. -- Lord Chesterfield
Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunterâ??s home. -- Chetan Bhagat
In all ages, far back into prehistory, we find human beings have painted and adorned themselves. -- H. G. Wells
To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire. -- Democritus
Perfecting one's intellect causes one to speak less, and those words spoken will be adorned with wisdom. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it. -- Epictetus
Why are stamps adorned with kings and presidents? That we may lick their hinder parts and thump their heads. -- Howard Nemerov
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life. -- Thomas Brooks
friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue. -- Mary Astell
She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in. -- John M. Tobin, Jr.
In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects... We are over our heads. -- Michael Fullan
The lover's pleasure is in the pleasure of the beloved. The lover is satisfied when the beloved is fed. The lover is vain when the beloved is adorned. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is adorned with flowers, that is, with acts of virtue. -- Paul of the Cross
For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but what they are all fundamentally experiencing is the essential nature of the mind. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous. -- Pythagoras

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