Ostents Quotes & Sayings

Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
To courtship and such fair ostents of love
As shall conveniently become you there. — William Shakespeare

The stupidity of a well-placed "dude" can really defuse a situation — Chris Lynch

I like cluttered, old, dark-wood antiques. I like character. — Martha Plimpton

He scowled at Jason. And please, I don't like being touched. Don't ever grab me again. — Rick Riordan

So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.
From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say,
Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know. — Francis Thompson

Holy words and pure and goodly deeds ascend unto the heaven of celestial glory. — Baha'u'llah

I am not, I will not be.
I have not, I will not have.
This frightens all children,
And kills fear in the wise. — Nagarjuna

If (a particular researcher) won't stop when you ask nicely, when you picket in front of his house, or when you burn his car, maybe he'll stop when you hit him over the head with a two-by-four. — Jerry Vlasak

Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle. — Emily Giffin