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Ornaments were invented by modesty. -- Joseph Joubert
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. -- Munshi Premchand
Silence is an ornament for women. -- Sophocles
Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste. -- William Shakespeare
The hair is the richest ornament of women. -- Martin Luther
Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree. -- Ed Coan
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Imagination is the hood ornament on your car of creativity. -- Gary Busey
The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. -- Aristotle
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. -- Joseph Addison
Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. -- Democritus
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. -- John Ruskin
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. -- Edmund Burke
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
Think it a vile habit to alter works of good composers, to omit parts of them, or to insert new-fashioned ornaments. This is the greatest insult you can offer to Art. -- Robert Schumann
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
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
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 first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. -- Thomas Carlyle
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 -- Frank Lloyd Wright
You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not necessary, but so very nice. It's Him...It's priceless to discover the pleasure of His company...May your home know something of all this glory during these days. -- Jack W. Hayford
The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by various names. Gold made into various ornaments, we call by various names. But all the clothes are cotton and all the ornaments gold. The one is real, the many are mere names and forms. -- Ramana Maharshi
When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman. -- Martin Luther
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit. -- Henry David Thoreau
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts. -- Luc de Clapiers
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. -- Francis Bacon
Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments. -- Gina Rodriguez
Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments. -- Cameron Russell
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one. -- Arthur Golden
The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well. -- Theophilus London
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace. -- John Owen
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression. -- Karl Philipp Moritz
Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man. -- Tertullian
Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family. -- Charles M. Schulz
You'll see everything from gold teeth to hood ornaments. It's almost like Halloween during August. -- David Carson
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. -- George Eliot
The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. -- Jean Genet
Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Fierce Determination and Gentle Humility are the ornaments which make one attractive in the eyes of the Lord. -- Radhanath Swami
There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear. -- Michel de Montaigne
The history of most women is hidden either by silence, or by flourishes and ornaments that amount to silence. -- Virginia Woolf
Let us give today first the vital things of life and all the grace and ornaments of life will follow. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Some Christmas tree ornaments do more than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love given a long time ago -- Tom Baker
The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth. -- Alphonsus Liguori
Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the holocaust The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments. -- Robert Pinsky
All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heaven grant me that I may thus rejoice in my children, thus see them ornaments to their Country, and blessings to their parents. -- Abigail Adams
When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete. -- Mahatma Gandhi
old things in new eyesdifficult to say goodbyestar as ornaments and long dress of darkness both are holding in lovenew of old ,unforgettable -- lity munshi
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry. -- Alexander Pope
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
We hew and saw and plane facts to make them dovetail with our prejudices, so that they become mere ornaments with which to parade our objectivity. -- Paul Eldridge
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To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason. -- Robertson Davies
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. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there. -- Rumi
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion. -- John Stuart Mill

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