#ornament

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. ↗

— Munshi Premchand

#bear #need #ornaments #softness #weight

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? ↗

— John Ruskin

#ask #believe #carver #done #enjoyment

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. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#better #building #church #decoration #god

But the building's identity resided in the ornament. ↗

— Louis Sullivan

#building #identity #ornament #resided

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#even #hair #hopes #like #look

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. ↗

— James Irwin

#beautiful #blackness #christmas #christmas tree #diminished

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. ↗

— Amos Bronson Alcott

#appear #center #children #complete #embraces

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. ↗

— Aristotle

#bashfulness #old #old age #ornament #reproach

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! ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#alas #architecture #bad #come #comes

Look on beauty, And you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; Which therein works a miracle in nature, Making them lightest that wear most of it: So are those crisped snaky golden locks Which make such wanton gambols with the wind, Upon supposed fairness, often known To be the dowry of a second head, The skull that bred them in the sepulchre. Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#beauty #falsehood #ornament #pretense #beauty