Ornamentum Quotes

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#2. There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

Hosea Ballou

#3. Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world.

Clement Of Alexandria

#4. There really is no such thing as failure. There is only the rearrangement of plans and surrender of ego.

Suzanne Falter-Barns

#5. I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible

Raoul Wallenberg

#6. In this world we must help one another.

Jean De La Fontaine

#7. Rapunzel. She was one hundred times nobler than he had been, and he loved her.

Melanie Dickerson

#8. So I think we have an obligation with our size to make sure that we are open to what people have to say to us because the people who criticize us, they're not all mean-spirited.

Lee Scott

#9. There never was another like you in this world. God throws the mold away every time he makes a man [or woman] ... I think He made you what you are in order that you might do some particular thing better than anyone else in the world could do it.

Hugh B. Brown

#10. Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian participation in contemporary social issues.

H. Wayne House

#11. We cannot do it in this way for two reasons. First, we do not yet know all the basic laws: there is an expanding frontier of ignorance. Second, the correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore,

Richard Feynman

#12. In the eye of the law no doubt, man and wife are for many purposes one: but that is a strong figurative expression, and cannot be so dealt with as that all the consequences must follow which would result from its being literally true.

William Henry Maule

#13. When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.

E. M. Forster

#14. Not that the crew of the Toiletship itself were above a practical joke now and then.

Thomas Pynchon

#15. Come home to the affirmation that we have a dream. Come home to the conviction that we can move our country forward. Come home to the belief that we can seek a newer world. And let us be joyful in the homecoming ...

George McGovern

#16. Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.

Jed Rubenfeld