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Silence is an ornament for women.
Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.
I don't have the habit of wearing ornaments.
The building's identity resided in the ornament.
Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.
Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
My mom's really into Christmas ornaments and our tree's lavish and beautiful.
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
I happen to love creating handmade ornaments even when I mess up I still have fun.
I am not the sort of person to carry beautiful flowers and be an ornament to everyone.
Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
In 1979, postmodernism lost its understanding of the meaning of ornament. It degenerated into kitsch applique.
MS Dhoni is a massive influence on the team. He is a living legend in the dressing room and an ornament to the game.
One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.
I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!
Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
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.
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
For years, I had a Christmas ornament I had bought at a Cracker Barrel that read 'Deck Them Halls, Y'all.' It always tickled me.
I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
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.
When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
Nature was developed to resist the onslaughts of capitalism, but it's really not a very good defense - rather like resisting a steamroller with a Christmas tree ornament.
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.
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.
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.
The holidays are a time to - not quite play it safe - but play it classic. You don't want to be the girl in a head-to-toe sequin look, where you look like you should be an ornament on the tree.
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.
I think there is no better way to invite a human being to view their body differently than by inviting them to be an athlete, by revering one's body as an instrument rather than just an ornament.
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.
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
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.
There is a misconception in our society that only women have to follow the norms of wearing a mangalsutra after marriage. Actually there are a few ornaments which even men are expected to wear after marriage.
There is a recurring temptation for any nation, and for any writer who operates within its field of force, to make an ornament of the past: to turn the losses to victories and to restate humiliations as triumphs.
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.
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
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.
Stolen scrap like manhole covers, railroad weights, stop signs, guard rails, and public lighting put our residents in grave danger. Not only that, but the theft is tearing apart communities with stolen church and cemetery ornaments.
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.