47 Quotes About Ornaments
- Author Igor Stravinsky
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.
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- Author Louis Sullivan
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But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
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- Author Radhanath Swami
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Humility is an ornament which attracts Krishna's heart. Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.
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- Author Samuel Smiles
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Manners are the ornament of action.
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- Author Sophocles
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Silence is an ornament for women.
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- Author Sophocles
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What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
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- Author Sophocles
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Woman, to women silence is the best ornament.
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- Author Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.
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- Author Evelyn Waugh
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I read the newspapers with lively interest. It is seldom that they are absolutely, point-blank wrong. That is the popular belief, but those who are in the know can usually discern an embryo of truth, a little grit of fact, like the core of a pearl, round which have been deposited the delicate layers of ornament.
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