Quotes of Garment - somelinesforyou

“ All the kinds of things... contrary to what the look is,... I could do a high heel with a jumpsuit, or I might do a gown with a desert boot. So it's, again, the contradiction. ”

- Ralph Lauren

“ The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things. ”

- John Buchan

“ Where's the man could ease a heart, like a satin gown? ”

- Dorothy Parker

“ An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger. Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned… ”

- James Baldwin

“ Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be inseparable part of our very being. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhwre. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. ”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

“ They say you should not suffer through the past.You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop. ”

- Eva Jessye

“ I've gained a few pounds around the middle. The only lower-body garments I own that still fit me comfortably are towels. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Nonviolence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed? ”

- Michelangelo

“ There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. ”

- Jean Giraudoux

“ Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather. ”

- Donald Grey Barnhouse

“ After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ”

- Douglas William Jerrold

“ Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun! ”

- Alexander Blok

“ Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it. ”

- Laurell K. Hamilton

“ Simplicity is often the cloak of evil as well as the robe of virtue. ”

- Lewis Morris

“ Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The pinafore of the child will be more than a match for the frock of the bishop and the surplice of the priest. ”

- James Martineau

“ To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. ”

- Bible

“ As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man. ”

- St. John Chrysostom

“ Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. ”

- Edward Blishen

“ Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. ”

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

“ Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. ”

- Akhenaton

“ Leisure is a beautiful garment, but it will not do for constant wear. ”

- Unknown

“ No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women. ”

- Sir Walter Raleigh

“ Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our very being. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life. ”

- Sir William Osler

“ The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. ”

- Thomas Carlyle
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