Apparel Quotes - Page 3

• Still to be neat, still to be drest,
  As you were going to a feast,
  Still to be powder'd, all perfum'd.
  Lady, it is to be presumed,
  Though art's hid causes are not found,
  All is not sweet, all is not sound.

  Ben Jonson

  Sweet, Art, Causes

  'Epicoene' (1609) act 1, sc. 1

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• Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked ones.

  William Penn

  Excess, World, Naked

  Benjamin Franklin, William Penn (2012). “Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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• The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

  Ambrose

  Honesty, Clothes, Simplicity

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• He who, though dressed in fine apparel, exercises tranquillity, is quiet, subdued, restrained, chaste, and has ceased to find fault with all other beings, he indeed is an ascetic.

  Max Muller

  Exercise, Faults, Quiet

  F. Max Muller (2014). “The Dhammapada and Sutta-Nipata”, p.39, Routledge

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• Go to American Apparel; they have all of the colors of socks.

  Theophilus London

  Color, Sock

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.

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• Darwinian evolution may be the most truthful and powerful idea ever generated by Western Science, but if we continue to illustrate our conviction with an indefensible, unsupported, entirely speculative, and basically rather silly story, then we are clothing a thing of beauty in rags - and we should be ashamed, "for the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Silly, Men

  Stephen Jay Gould (1999). “Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History”, Three Rivers Press (CA)

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• By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sunset, Clouds, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.1492, Jazzybee Verlag

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• To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Eye, Giving

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• I love design in general, the creativity. Whether it is golf courses, my apparel line, ads we do or our business with AriZona, design is fun.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Fun, Creativity, Golf

  "Arizona 20 Years: Jack Nicklaus". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Voice, Giving

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• Well-apparel'd April on the heel
  Of limping Winter treads.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Winter, April

  William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.82

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• I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave.

  William Shakespeare

  Gay, Jewels, Giving

  'Richard II' (1595) act 3, sc. 3, l. 143

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• apparel, n.: There are times I don’t mind doing the laundry, because folding your clothes reminds me of the shape of you.

  David Levithan

  Clothes, Mind, Shapes

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• Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self when one does not lack wit and is familiar with all the niceties of language. Language is a prostitute queen who descends and rises to all roles. Disguises herself, arrays herself in fine apparel, hides her head and effaces herself; an advocate who has an answer for everything, who has always foreseen everything, and who assumes a thousand forms in order to be right. The most honorable of men is he who thinks best and acts best, but the most powerful is he who is best able to talk and write

  George Sand

  Queens, Powerful, Writing

  George Sand “Les ëuvres Choisies de George Sand. The Selected Works of George Sand”, Library of Alexandria

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• Basically for everything that comes out of Five Four, I've come up with the idea or changed it in some way. I'm also working with Putnam Accessory Group, a private label hat manufacturer. I'm in the process of re-branding a line they have called Chuck. It was mostly hats and bags, but I'm adding apparel and eyewear and whatever I feel like adding to turn it more into a brand. I'm supposed to be working with Pharrell on Billionaire Boys Club, but that's on hold.

  Mark McNairy

  Boys, Ideas, Groups

  Source: wwd.com

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• We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Inspiration, Blow, Laughing

  'Solitude'

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• At the beginning of my career I was going through a really weird phase of dressing in boys clothes. I would only wear one American Apparel T-shirt and shorts and brogues the whole year round. Not the same T-shirt, obviously, but one style of American Apparel T-shirt. I think I was going through a tomboy stage.

  Florence Welch

  Boys, Thinking, Years

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• I do not have a merchandise line. I don't sell knives or apparel. Though I have been approached to endorse various products from liquor to airlines to automobiles to pharmaceuticals dozens of times, I have managed to resist the temptation.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Knives, Temptation, Dozen

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• Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built complete wardrobe on a limited budget. "Money," I tell them, "is no guarantee of taste and the fitness of things, and an overstuffed closet is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel."

  Edith Head

  Skeletons, Guarantees, Taste

  "How to Dress for Success".

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• Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

  John Wesley

  Next, Scripture, Sin

  Sermons on Several Occasions Sermon 88 (1788). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Next in this proverb means 'immediately following,' as in serial order." The ODP refers to a passage in Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning (1605), reading, "Cleannesse of bodie was euer esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God."

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• No matter how much proponents of 'intelligent design' try to clothe their views in the apparel of science, it is what it is: religion. Whose intelligence? Whose design?

  Cynthia Tucker

  Intelligent, Views, Design

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• The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

  Kevin Plank

  Sports, Shoes, Void

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• I'm from the south side of Atlanta, College Park, and we all really care about our dress code and our apparel and our attire, so I think it's just something that started when I was growing up. Just trying to be me and up to date and being an individual at the same time.

  2 Chainz

  Growing Up, College, Thinking

  Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com. October 2012.

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• English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

  Bill Bryson

  Mean, Gentleman, Asking

  Bill Bryson (1990). “The Mother Tongue”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Our Government’s top priority remains jobs and economic growth. Today’s announcement demonstrates our commitment to ensuring the continued success of western Canadian businesses and entrepreneurs in the apparel and textile sector.

  Michelle Rempel

  Jobs, Commitment, Government

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