Ornamental Quotes

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men. - Mark Twain

We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here. - Erich Maria Remarque

They're making a beeline for the park and all the prairie wildflowers and ornamentals that have been planted there... I walk through and see thousands and thousands on the plants. They're especially going to the mint family. - Michael Thompson

They can place those in ornamental ponds, they can place those in abandoned swimming pools, any area that doesn't open up to a natural body of water. - Greg Olmsted

The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion; a temporary shelter for the human project. - Thornton Wilder

That ornamental excrement that grows beneath the chin. - Thomas Fuller

That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose. - Richard Whately

Soil moisture that is root-system deep will help almost any ornamental planting do a better job of getting through winter. - Ward Upham