Quotes about Ornament

He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

The hair is the richest ornament of women.

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,

He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

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.

Good design is simple. You hear this from math to painting. In math it means that a shorter proof tends to be a better one. Where axioms are concerned, especially, less is more. It means much the same thing in programming. For architects and designers, it means that beauty should depend on a few carefully chosen structural elements rather than a profusion of superficial ornament.

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

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.