Ornaments Quotes - Page 6

• I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Debtors, Occupation

  Francis Bacon, John Blackbourne, George Fabyan Collection (Library of Congress) (1730). “Francisci Baconi Baronis de Verulamio ... Opera Omnia Quatuor Voluminibus Comprehensa: Containing, I. Proposition for compiling and amendment of our laws. II. Offer of a digest of the laws. III. Elements, or, Maxims and use of the common law. IV. Cases of treason. V. Four arguments in law ... VI. Draught of an act. VII. Ordinances in chancery. VIII. Reading on the statute of uses. IX. Resuscitatio ... X. Charges. XI. Speeches. XII. Observations on a libel, &c. XIII. Report of Lopez's treason. XI”, p.15

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• Man doth seek a triple perfection: first a sensual, consisting in those things which very life itself requireth either as necessary supplements, or as beauties and ornaments thereof; then an intellectual, consisting in those things which none underneath man is either capable of or acquainted with; lastly a spiritual and divine, consisting in those things whereunto we tend by supernatural means here, but cannot here attain unto them.

  Richard Hooker

  Espiritual, Media, Hombres

  1594 Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.

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• What an ornament and safeguard is humor! Far better than wit for a poet and writer. It is a genius itself, and so defends from the insanities.

  Walter Scott

  Humor, Insanity, Genius

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• Don't let your heart depend on things
  That ornament life in a fleeting way!
  He who possesses, let him learn to lose,
  He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Pain, Heart, Fleeting

  "The Bride of Messina" by Friedrich Schiller, Act IV, sc. iv, 1803.

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• Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

  Séneca el Joven

  Men, Elegance, Worthy

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• Un análisis minucioso de la vida destruye enseguida ese esplendor que deslumbra a la imaginación. Todo lo que la grandeza puede exhibir, o el lujo disfrutar, se obtiene mediante oficios cuya contemplación la mente rehúye. Todos los manjares de la mesa se remontan a los tugurios y al estercolero; toda la magnificencia de la construcción se labró en la cantera, y toda la pompa del ornamento se extrajo de entre los pantanos y la oscuridad de la mina.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Luxury, Imagination

  Samuel Johnson, Hester Lynch Piozzi, James Boswell (1804). "Las bellezas de Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: consisting of maxims and observations, moral, critical, and miscellaneous: to which are now added biographical anecdotes of the doctor, selected from the works of Mrs. Piozzi;--his Life, recently published by Mr. Boswell, and other authentic testimonies; also his will, and the sermon he wrote for the late Doctor Dodd"

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• The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up.

  Hilda Scott

  Hard Work, Wife, Achievement

  Hilda Scott (1984). “Working your way to the bottom: the feminization of poverty”, Pandora Pr

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• Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility.

  Aristotle

  Greatness, Soul, Moral

  Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”

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• Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Railroads, Strange

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• Un país cuyos edificios son de madera, nunca puede aumentar sus mejoras en un grado considerable.... Mientras que cuando los edificios son de materiales duraderos, cada nueva construcción es una adquisición real y permanente para el Estado, que se añade a su valor, así como a su ornamento.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Degrees, Acquisition

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.162

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• ... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Artist, Unthinkable

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• Even in the scorched and frozen world of the dead after the
  holocaust
  The wheel as it turns goes on accreting ornaments.

  Robert Pinsky

  Death, Holocaust, Frozen

  Robert Pinsky (2014). “History of My Heart: Poems”, p.4, Macmillan

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• To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.

  Francis Bacon

  Sloth, Use, Laziness

  1625 Essays, no.50,'Of Studies'.

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• One of the things I've always loved about New York is there is so much precedent for ornament on industrial buildings.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  New York, Building, Precedent

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• There is a city in which you find everything you desire-handsome people, pleasures, ornaments of every kind-all that the natural person craves. However, you cannot find a single wise person there.

  Rumi

  Wise, Cities, People

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• Nine times out of ten, I'm trying to meet someone else's expectations, whether it's the director or the writer or the animator, when I go back in to re-record a line. I'm the icing on the cake, but the cake is the thing. I'm really just a hood ornament on a very solid vehicle.

  Adrian Pasdar

  Cake, Expectations, Trying

  Fuente: collider.com

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• What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?

  Sófocles

  Father, Son, Glory

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• A menudo nos llama la atención la fuerza y precisión de estilo a la que llegan los hombres trabajadores, sin práctica en la escritura, cuando se les pide que hagan el esfuerzo. Como si la llaneza, el vigor y la sinceridad, los ornamentos del estilo, se aprendieran mejor en la granja y en el taller que en las escuelas. Las frases escritas por manos tan rudas son nerviosas y duras, como correas endurecidas, los tendones del ciervo o las raíces del pino.

  Henry David Thoreau

  School, Hard Work, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.385, Modern Library

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• El dinero puede ayudarte a conseguir medicinas, pero no salud. El dinero puede ayudarte a conseguir almohadas blandas, pero no un sueño profundo. El dinero puede ayudarte a conseguir comodidades materiales, pero no la dicha eterna. El dinero puede ayudarte a conseguir adornos, pero no belleza. El dinero te ayudará a conseguir un auricular eléctrico, pero no la audición natural. Alcanza la riqueza suprema, la sabiduría; lo tendrás todo.

  Sivananda

  Sueño, Medicina, Sonido

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• Leo los periódicos con gran interés. Rara vez están totalmente equivocados. Esa es la creencia popular, pero los que están al tanto pueden discernir normalmente un embrión de verdad, un pequeño grano de hecho, como el núcleo de una perla, alrededor del cual se han depositado las delicadas capas de ornamento.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Facts, Grit, Pearls

  Evelyn Waugh (1964). "Scoop: una novela"

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• La educación es el alimento de la juventud, el deleite de la vejez, el ornamento de la prosperidad, el refugio y consuelo de la adversidad y la provocación de la gracia en el alma.

  Saint Augustine

  Adversity, Soul, Grace

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• Wine is a part of society because it provides a basis not only for a morality but also for an environment; it is an ornament in the slightest ceremonials of French daily life, from the snack to the feast, from the conversation at the local cafT to the speech at a formal dinner.

  Roland Barthes

  Wine, Snacks, Speech

  Roland Barthes (1973). "Mitologías"

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• ¿Temes ser igual en tus actos y en tu valor que en tu deseo? ¿Quieres tener lo que consideras el ornamento de la vida, y vivir como un cobarde en tu propia estima, dejando que el "no me atrevo" espere al "me gustaría", como el pobre gato del refrán?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Cat, Waiting

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 35

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• The Cross isn't an ornament, mere symbol. It's the mystery of God's love, that He died for our sins.

  Pope Francis

  Mystery, Sin, Crosses

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• We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Knowledge, Order, Littles

  "El Cisne Negro: El impacto de lo altamente improbable". Libro de Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 17 de abril de 2007.

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