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I cannot however help repeating Piety, because I think it indispensible. Religion in a Family is at once its brightest Ornament & its best Security. -- Samuel Adams
Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing -- John Milton
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 their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity. -- Christopher Wren
The building's identity resided in the ornament. -- Louis Sullivan
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth. -- Plautus
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. -- Aristotle
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. -- Alanis Morissette
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. -- Joseph Addison
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. -- Aristotle
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique. -- Charles Jencks
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. -- Oscar Wilde
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. -- Edmund Burke
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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
I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core. -- Robert Pinsky
The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island. -- William Blackstone
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? -- John Ruskin
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament. -- Rem Koolhaas
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. -- Igor Stravinsky
I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament. -- Alanis Morissette
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas! -- T. E. Lawrence
The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. -- James Irwin
Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I'm invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who'll play the piano after dinner, and I know you're not really invited for yourself. You're just an ornament. -- Marilyn Monroe
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his purity; he ought not to despise humility, but should love forbearance and modesty. All these are an ornament to youthful years. -- Saint Ambrose
First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. -- Gustav Stickley
Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock. -- Aristotle
Tiger Woods was a month away from 34 years of age when his debutantes began turning up in the news. He was a grown man with a wife and two children. Well, we supposed he had a wife, but that was before we learned she was only an ornament. -- Dan Jenkins
I think that 'Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance' was mentally taxing, if only because I had to go to a Christmas party shortly after I had wrapped photography in Romania at two in the morning as the Ghost Rider. The invitation had a Christmas ornament on it with Ghost Rider's face on it as a tree. -- Nicolas Cage
Sustainability has become an ornament. -- Rem Koolhaas
Silence is an ornament for women. -- Sophocles
Manners are the ornament of action. -- Samuel Smiles
Clearness is the ornament of deep thought. -- Luc de Clapiers
Most works are most beautiful without ornament. -- Walt Whitman
But the building's identity resided in the ornament. -- Louis Sullivan
Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion. -- Joseph Addison
Honesty needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain. -- Thomas Otway
The hair is the richest ornament of women. -- Martin Luther
Woman, to women silence is the best ornament. -- Sophocles
Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man. -- Seneca the Younger
An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. -- Oscar Wilde
Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul. -- Elizabeth George
Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity. -- Gary Busey
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Woman is the heart of humanity ... its grace, ornament, and solace. -- Samuel Smiles
Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old. -- Aristotle
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. -- Democritus
He removes the greatest ornament of friendship who takes away from it respect. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society. -- Charles Lamb
They are done merely for ornament. ... the common people regard them as supernatural. -- Xun Zi
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind. -- Elizabeth Aston
Just think how beautiful you can be if kindness is your ornament of beauty. -- Debasish Mridha
Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions. -- Ann Radcliffe
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. -- William Shakespeare
Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility. -- Radhanath Swami
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. -- Anzia Yezierska
I think that the new models of Chevrolet should have Barney Frank as a hood ornament. -- Sean Hannity
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. -- John Ruskin
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age. -- Aristotle
The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Right on to the New Period vineyard arbors were the centre and chief ornament of all gardens. -- Marie-Luise Gothein
Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament. -- Adolf Loos
... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable. -- Elizabeth Bowen
I am a pretty, useless ornament who always believed she'd have a man to take care of her. -- Virginia C. Andrews
What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct? -- Sophocles
I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power. -- Andrew Solomon
The real Rose Hovick was seriously mentally disturbed; June Havoc called her a beautiful little ornament that was damaged. -- Karen Abbott
The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins. -- Pope Francis
It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament. -- Lewis H. Lapham
Love is an ornament of the affluent, there can be no love if you need to fight for your existence. -- Ritu Chowdhary
A beautiful smile is the prettiest ornament that you can find. Happiness is the prettiest color for your imaginative mind. -- Debasish Mridha
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. -- Charles Kingsley
The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up. -- Hilda Scott
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings. -- Annabelle Selldorf
Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich. -- Diogenes
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth. -- Chanakya
He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.] -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning. -- Martin Luther
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another. -- Neil Postman
Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament. -- Andre Gide
The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure. -- Henry David Thoreau
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. -- Thomas Carlyle
In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? -- William Shakespeare
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
My precept to all who build, is, that the owner should be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the owner. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament. -- Benjamin Franklin
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
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
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. -- Francis Bacon
More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures. -- Ronald Reagan
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. -- Randall Jarrell
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 guide. -- Charles Simmons
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 ornament. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defence and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength, - the floating bulwark of our island. -- William Blackstone
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. -- Walter Scott
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 getting there. -- David Lee
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Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. -- Igor Stravinsky
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. -- John Dowland
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
A lady I will be, but a man's accessory, his handbag, no thank you. I will not be someone's ornament. I will not just be someone's honey, baby, sweetheart. -- Deb Caletti
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. -- Dennis Lehane
Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move -- Patricia Briggs
Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul. -- Saint Augustine
I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul. -- Fernando Pessoa
The whole of heraldry and of chivalry is in courtesy. A man of fine manners shall pronounce your name with all the ornament that titles of nobility could ever add. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Friedrich Schiller
When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy. -- Birgitte Hjort Sorensen
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. -- Francis Bacon
The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind. -- George Washington
Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth is his livelihood, his recommendation, his letters of credit. -- Benjamin Whichcote
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design. -- Eva Zeisel
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 mould character. The end of culture is right living. -- W. Somerset Maugham

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