47 Quotes About Ornaments

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.

Ornaments were invented by modesty.

As not every instance of similitude can be considered as a proof of imitation, so not every imitation ought to be stigmatised as plagiarism. The adoption of a noble sentiment, or the insertion of a borrowed ornament, may sometimes display so much judgment as will almost compensate for invention; and an inferior genius may, without any imputation of servility, pursue the paths of the ancients, provided he declines to tread in their footsteps.

A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.

Sustainability has become an ornament.

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.