Quotes by Ornaments The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning. Martin Luther mourning ornaments hair Arms are my ornaments, warfare my repose. Miguel de Cervantes ornaments warfare arms As by some might be saide of me: that here I have but gathered a nosegay of strange floures, and have put nothing of mine unto it, but the thred to binde them. Certes, I have given unto publike opinion, that these borrowed ornaments accompany me; but I meane not they should cover or hide me. Michel de Montaigne ornaments opinion might Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. Munshi Premchand ornaments beauty needs 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. Nassim Nicholas Taleb ornaments order knowledge The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments. Nassim Nicholas Taleb ornaments weakness shows 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 ornaments humility character 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 ornaments perception world An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory. Oscar Wilde oratory ornaments 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 ornaments prejudice objectivity The arts alone give direct access to experience. To eliminate them from education - or worse, to tolerate them as cultural ornaments - is antieducational obscurantism. It is foisted on us by the pedants and snobs of Hellenistic Greece who considered artistic performance fit only for slaves. Peter Drucker ornaments giving art Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth. Plautus filth ornaments soil The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins. Pope Francis ornaments mystery sin Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility. Radhanath Swami ornaments humility heart 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 ornaments occupation art The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it Ralph Waldo Emerson ornaments home Sustainability has become an ornament. Rem Koolhaas sustainability ornaments 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 ornaments political thinking Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the Robert Pinsky ornaments holocaust death 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. Roland Barthes ornaments snacks wine «123456»
