(32 quotes found)
“Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.”
Chanakya
“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.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“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
“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
“So may the outward shows be least themselves:The world is still deceived with ornament.”
William Shakespeare
“The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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
“The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion”
John Stuart Mill
“The biggest attraction in Britain is Britain - the whole package. Our heritage is not just a collection of ornaments scattered across the country, it is Britain itself and makes us gloriously distinguishable from any other country.”
Bill Bryson
