“ Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
“ Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud. ”
- Sophocles- Copy
“ There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke. ”
- J. J. Procter- Copy
“ They offered me one cover about 10 years ago, and I said, no, I can't do it. I'm happy to cover up now. ”
- Ursula Andress- Copy
“ What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little? ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
“ You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it. ”
- Larry Speakes- Copy
“ In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward. ”
- Alice Munro- Copy
“ Within the covers of the Bible are all the answers for all the problems men face. ”
- Ronald Reagan- Copy
“ I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the Gift Wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping. ”
- Steven Wright- Copy
“ I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag. ”
- Craig Washington- Copy
“ I say to myself that I mustn't let myself be cut off in there, and yet the moment I enter my bag is taken out of my hand, I'm pushed in, shepherded, nursed and above all cut off, alone. Whitehall envelops me. ”
- Richard Crossman- Copy
“ On this earth all is temptation.... We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home. ”
- Francois Fenelon- Copy
“ If your heart is large enough to envelop your adversaries, you can see right through them and avoid their attacks. And once you envelop them, you will be able to guide them along the path indicated to you by heaven and earth. ”
- Morihei Ueshiba- Copy
“ The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid. ”
- Lady Bird Johnson- Copy
“ I don't want to wrap myself in the flag, because I'm afraid I'll get burned. ”
- former Chief Justice Warren Burger- Copy
“ I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
“ What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us are wrapped up in parentheses. ”
- John Irving- Copy
“ And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped Him in swaddling clothes, and laid Him in a manger. ”
- The Bible- Copy
“ The first duty of a lecturer: to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
“ He wrapped himself in quotations — as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
“ I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands. ”
- Zora Neale Hurston- Copy
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