(32 quotes found)
“The hand is not so well adorned by ornaments as by charitable offerings; one does not become clean by smearing sandalwood paste upon the body as by taking a bath; one does not become so much satisfied by dinner as by having respect shown to him; and salvation is not attained by self-adornment as by cultivation of spiritual knowledge.”
Chanakya
“Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.”
Titus Maccius Plautus
“It's wiped. We lost it all, ... They had boats up in trees like Christmas ornaments. It's like a different world.”
Dan Parker
“We must not think of ornament as something added to an object which might have been ugly without it. The beauty of anything unadorned is not increased by ornament, but made more effective by it. ... It is only when the symbolic values of ornament have been lost, that decoration becomes a sophistry, irresponsible to the content of the work.”
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
“Gladstone was what you'd call an ornamental rector. Some were neither use nor ornament. He was at least ornamental.”
Donald Wintersgill
“Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.”
Bible
“You have a car that goes from being a usable car to what some call a lawn ornament -- you park it on the lawn if you don't have money to fix it.”
Clarence Ditlow
“too much ornamentation for the sake of it. The licks got in the way.”
Mark Holden
“That ornamental excrement that grows beneath the chin”
Thomas Fuller
