Quotes of Decorated - somelinesforyou

“ Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility. ”

- James Montgomery

“ Partial culture runs to the ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. ”

- Christian Nestell Bovee

“ Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller

“ A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart. ”

- Frank Lloyd Wright

“ Who seems most hideous when adorned the most. ”

- Ludovico Ariosto

“ Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale. ”

- John Milton

“ We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike. ”

- David Ansen

“ Th' first thing to have in a lib'ry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing. ”

- Finley Peter Dunne

“ Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama. ”

- Michiko Kakutani

“ In my youth, poverty enriched me, but now I can afford wealth. ”

- Marc Chagall

“ And it was under Wilson that the first great propaganda slogan was coined and emblazoned everywhere, to make Americans start thinking favorably of democracies and forget that we had a republic. ”

- Robert Welch

“ We are enriched by our reciprocate differences. ”

- Paul Valery

“ It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need. ”

- Audrey Tautou

“ By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent. ”

- Bible

“ Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. ”

- Bible

“ Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ The true grandeur of humanity is in moral elevation, sustained, enlightened and decorated by the intellect of man. ”

- Charles Sumner

“ Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination. ”

- Voltaire

“ Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has. ”

- Billy Graham

“ Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. ”

- John Christian Bovee

“ I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. ”

- Titus

“ Universal orthodoxy is enriched by every new discovery of truth: what at first appeared universal, by wishing to stand still, sooner or later becomes a sect. ”

- Edgar Quinet

“ Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other. ”

- Felix Adler

“ In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora. ”

- John Milton

“ By foreign hands thy humble grave adorned: by strangers honored, by strangers mourned. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Idealists...foolish enough to throw caution to the winds...have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. ”

- Emma Goldman
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