All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!
T. E. Lawrence

Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.
Plautus

Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
Aristotle

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
Rem Koolhaas

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
Louis Sullivan

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

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
Gustav Stickley

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?
John Ruskin

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.
Alanis Morissette

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

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.
Joseph Addison

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke

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

Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
Anzia Yezierska

Silence is an ornament for women.
Sophocles

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

The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine.
James Irwin

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
Mahatma Gandhi

The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
William Blackstone