Quotes about Ornament

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

We are so made that we soon grow weary of ornament for sake of ornament, and even of beauty that makes no appeal to the heart or the understanding.

The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then proposed as an object of worship, when it is set up by itself, and not by way of addition or ornament to another thing.Stillingfleet'sDefence of Discourses on Romish Idolatry.

in the second row a turquoise, a sapphire, and a diamond;

For the breastpiece, make braided chains like cords of pure gold.

Then they fastened the two gold chains to the two gold rings at the corners of the breastpiece,

Learning maketh young men temperate, is the comfort of old age, standing for wealth with poverty, and serving as an ornament to riches.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.

Wisdom is an ornament of grace to the soul.

Do you give strength to the horse or adorn his neck with a mane?

Like an earring of gold or an ornament of fine gold is a wise man’s rebuke to a listening ear.