Ornaments Quotes - Page 11

• That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
  For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
  The ornament of beauty is suspect,
  A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Air, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.29, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• An archer competing for a clay vessel shoots effortlessly, his or her skill and concentration unimpeded. If the prize is changed to a brass ornament, the hands begin to shake. If it is changed to gold, he or she squints as if going blind. The abilities do not deteriorate, but belief in them does, as he or she allows the supposed value of an external reward to cloud the vision.

  Zhuangzi

  Archer, Clouds, Hands

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• There were details like clothing, hair styles and the fragile objects that hardly ever survive for the archaeologist-musical instruments, bows and arrows, and body ornaments depicted as they were worn... No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely

  Mary Leakey

  Science, Arrows, Yield

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• Indeed the river is a perpetual gala, and boasts each month a new ornament.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rivers, Environmental, Each Month

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Nature”, p.17

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• The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gambling, Games, Twelve

  Oliver Goldsmith “the traveller and the deserted village”, CUP Archive

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• A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

  Neil Postman

  Perception, World, Metaphor

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• Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

  Diogenes

  Giving, Sobriety, Comfort

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

  Democritus

  Education, Unfortunate, Refuge

  "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 161), 1948.

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• Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

  Ed Coan

  Sports, Workout, Bodybuilding

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• The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by various names. Gold made into various ornaments, we call by various names. But all the clothes are cotton and all the ornaments gold. The one is real, the many are mere names and forms.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Motivational, Real, Self

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• When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.

  Martin Luther

  Mother, Wife, Style

  Martin Luther, Jules Michelet (1846). “The Life of Luther”, p.262

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