#ornament

I’m tied up, gagged and about to be bludgeoned to death by a lawn ornament. Jeez, that’s depressing. - Raven Smith ↗

— Rita Stradling

#lawn-ornament #death

Men were created before women. ... But that doesn't prove their superiority – rather, it proves ours, for they were born out of the lifeless earth in order that we could be born out of living flesh. And what's so important about this priority in creation, anyway? When we are building, we lay foundations on the ground first, things of no intrinsic merit or beauty, before subsequently raising up sumptuous buildings and ornate palaces. Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear; lovely roses blossom forth and scented narcissi. ↗

— Moderata Fonte

#building #dignity #empowerment #flowers #gender

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. ↗

— Henry Anatole Grunwald

#after #cases #civilized #civilized society #defense

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. ↗

— John Owen

#equal #fair #gifts #grace #higher

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth. ↗

— Plautus

#conduct #filth #finest #more #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. ↗

— Igor Stravinsky

#better #building #church #decoration #god

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

— Louis Sullivan

#building #identity #ornament #resided

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

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ↗

— Aristotle

#education #ornament #prosperity #refuge