Garments Quotes

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

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Birthday, Age, Needs

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook C 33, 1799.

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• Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow, Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.

  George Santayana

  Peace, Stars, Heart

  George Santayana (1979). “The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition”, Associated Univ Pr

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• A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons.

  David Dixon Porter

  Military, Marine, Buttons

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• Remember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store.

  Giorgio Armani

  Inspirational, Educational, Organization

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

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Men

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• What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

  Johann Georg Hamann

  Home, Slave, Festive

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• Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Family, Mothers Day, Mom

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• How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

  Og Mandino

  Sad, Past, Thinking

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• In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.

  Florence Kelley

  Hands, Body, Weakness

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• Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

  Charles Dickens

  Fashion, Clothes, Expectations

  1860-1 Great Expectations, ch.19.

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• Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

  Georg Buchner

  Government, People, Body

  "Danton's Death". Play by Georg Buchner, Act I, 1835.

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• If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Integrity, Offending

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

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• Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

  Joseph Joubert

  Grace, Feelings, Movement

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.60

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• A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.

  Otto von Bismarck

  Waiting, Political, Events

  "Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman". Book by A. J. P. Taylor, (p.115), 1955.

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• As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Mother, Pride, Gay

  Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press

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• The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Clothes, Gentleman, Conservative

  Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The Works of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, Embracing Novels, Romances, Plays, Poems, Biography, Short Stories and Great Speeches: Coningsby, v. 2. Selected speeches”

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• Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

  Loren Eiseley

  Beach, War, Ocean

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.45, Library of America

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• The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure, his art originated in the necessity for clothing such creatures, but this was long ago; to this day a shape will occasionally appear which will fit into the garment as if the garment had been made for it. Then there is no end of surprise and delight.

  George Dantzig

  Art, Math, Science

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• 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

  Years, People, Woven

  Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Three plays”

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• Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Looks, Able, Hangers

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• Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

  Edna Ferber

  Cutting, Literature, Becoming

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• 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 being.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Heart, Being Sad

  1926 War or Peace,'Young India'.

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• No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Knowledge, Science, Animal

  Ellsworth Huntington (1920). “The Red Man's Continent: A Chronicle of Aboriginal America”, p.58, Library of Alexandria

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• The body is a sacred garment.

  Martha Graham

  Inspirational, Dance, Health

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

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• 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 than the garment with which it is clothed?

  Michelangelo

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Shoes

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