Quotes About Ornament

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.

What counted was focus, paring down: the form of the Parthenon as opposed to all the ornament and complexities of wedding-cake architecture.

Every soul has religion, which is only another word for its existence. All living forms in which it expresses itself—all arts, doctrines, customs, all metaphysical and mathematical form-worlds, all ornament, every column and verse and idea—are ultimately religious, and must be so.

Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice. "Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon and hard to move.

A proverb is an ornament to language.

and two chains of pure gold, made of braided cord work; and attach these chains to the settings.