27 Ornament Quotes for You to Enjoy

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. Aristotle

Education Adversity Prosperity Refuge Ornament

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. Mahatma Gandhi

Character Woman Purity Real Ornament Her

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

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

Love God Good Youth Fear Honor Parents Humility Despise Ought Give Purity He Forbearance His Years Subject Elders Modesty Should Youthful Ornament Preserve

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man. Leonardo da Vinci

Food Knowledge Man Mind Past Earth Places Ornament

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

Family You Shopping Own Say Sewing Out Some Guy My Own Could Well Got Go Uniforms Team Ornament Royal Royal Family

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. Edmund Burke

Society Civil Nobility Polished Graceful Order Capital Ornament

Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation. Henry Grunwald

Perspective Reputation Society Defense Libel Resort Weapons Cases Civilized Civilized Society Look Most Least Replaced After Them Actions Ornament

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

Christmas Morning Photography Face Party Think Tree Ghost Wrapped Spirit Only Mentally Had Invitation Vengeance Because Go Romania After Taxing Rider Ornament Two

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse. Anzia Yezierska

Man Poverty White Horse Red Like Learned Learned Man Ribbon Ornament

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

News Man Age Wife Before Month Only Had He Supposed She Well Learned Tiger Tiger Woods His Years Began Up Children Woods Turning Grown Grown Man Away Ornament Two

My mom has this ugly Santa ornament, and one year, I took it off the tree and clipped it to her pillow. We've been trading it back and forth ever since - 16 years now. I wore it to the Golden Globes and even put it in her bird feeder. As the birds eat, it's slowly revealed. Eric Stonestreet

Mom Ugly Bird Year Tree Birds Took Back Eat Slowly Put Since Revealed Pillow Trading Been Years Off Golden Wore Forth Santa Even Now Ever Ornament Her

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

Emotions Communicate Made Design Vocabulary Through Emphasized Limited Lines Curve Against Modernism Straight Century Rebelling Expressive Harder Ornament Designer

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments. Gina Rodriguez

Christmas Half Trees Had Up Being Grew Ornament Jewish

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

Architecture Long First Beauty Hidden Log Charm Structural Features Open Firm Clearly Felt Revealed Lines Curves Which Japanese Themselves Then Bare Plaster Ornament

The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast. Isabella Bird

Fruit Beauty Tree Broad High Worthy Superb About Architectural Exceeding Delicate Take Throwing Foot Feet Sharply Leaves Shining Contrast Green Form Place Cut Deep Pale Ornament

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

We used tea towels for gloves until we got proper ones and were always breaking our mum's ornaments. She'd come home and find us all sat in our boxer shorts, out of breath and our skin red raw. She hated it. Liam Smith

Home Breath Tea Skin Our Out Find Hated Proper Raw Red Towels Come Until She Boxer Always Gloves Got Were Breaking Shorts Us Used Sat Mum Ornament

The building's identity resided in the ornament. Louis Sullivan

Architecture Building Identity Ornament

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. Oscar Wilde

Ugly Worthless Bad Us Let Us Ornament

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

Art Intelligence Think Refinement Human Center Human Intelligence Ornament Core

Among the gorges and ravines that hang on Los Angeles's shoulders like a necklace, Topanga - nestled in the cleavage of the Santa Monica Mountains - is the most singular of ornaments. Steve Erickson

Mountains Angeles Cleavage Like Most Los Singular Hang Shoulders Santa Santa Monica Among Ornament Monica Necklace

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