Garments Quotes - Page 12

• Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

  James Russell Lowell

  Plagiarism, Borrowed, Warm

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.69

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• The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

  Joseph Addison

  Pride, Color, Doe

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.250

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• There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Women, Gowns

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.367

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• And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Running, Home, Civilization

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• Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

  F.B. Meyer

  Prayer, Hands, Oil

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• Garments that have once one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is man's good name once tainted with just reproach.

  Joseph Hall

  Men, Glasses, Names

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.23

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• To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

  Jane Wagner

  Thinking, Zippers, Childbirth

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• [On religion:] Wasn't it invented by man for a kind of solace? It's as though he had said, 'I'll make me a nice comfortable garment to shut out the heat and the cold,' and then it ends by becoming a strait-jacket.

  Agnes Sligh Turnbull

  Nice, Men, Religion

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• Silence is the garment of light.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Light, Silence, Silence Is

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1991). “The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands”, Houghton Mifflin

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• When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears,
  A sable void the barren earth appears;
  The meads no more their former verdure boast,
  Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost;
  The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return;
  From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow,
  Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below,
  Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies,
  Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.

  George Crabbe

  Spring, Winter, Blow

  George Crabbe (1861). “The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe”, p.8

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• A throng of bearded men in sad-colored garments and gray, steeple-crowned hats, intermixed with women, some wearing hoods, and other bareheaded, was assembled in front of a wooden edifice, the door of which was heavily timbered with oak, and studded with iron spikes.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Book, Men, Doors

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Brian R. Harding (1998). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.47, Oxford University Press, USA

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• As the index tells us the contents of stories and directs to the particular chapter, even so does the outward habit and superficial order of garments (in man or woman) give us a taste of the spirit, and demonstratively point (as it were a manual note from the margin) all the internal quality of the soul; and there cannot be a more evident, palpable, gross manifestation of poor, degenerate, dunghilly blood and breeding than a rude, unpolished, disordered, and slovenly outside.

  Philip Massinger

  Men, Blood, Order

  Philip Massinger (1805). “The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford”, p.413

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• Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.

  Arlene Croce

  Reality, Style, Looks

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• we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.

  Elizabeth I

  Sight, Views, World

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• Freud's translator accidentally omitted 'fashion' in the psychoanalytic list of primary instinctual drives; along with the drive to sexuality there is the drive to wear odd garments that may cut off circulation, occlude vision, make toes grow sideways, cause riots.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Fashion, Cutting, Clothes

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• Rose of the desert! thou art to me
  An emblem of stainless purity,--
  Of those who, keeping their garments white,
  Walk on through life with steps aright.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Art, White, Rose

  David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.146

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• Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

  Martha Stewart

  Past, Clothes, Long

  Martha Stewart (2005). “The World According to Martha”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

  J. G. Holland

  Country, Hypocrisy, Charity

  J. G. HOLLAND (1866). “PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS”, p.59

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• Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sadness, Thinking, People

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• Know that you are God's beautiful child, always in God's hands. Accept God... accept God's protection... there is really no problem to fear. Know that you are not the clay garment. Know that you are not the self-centered nature which governs your life needlessly. Know that you are the God-centered nature, The Kingdom of God within. The Indwelling Christ. Eternal and indestructible. Identify with the real you.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Beautiful, Children, Real

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.71, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Who am I? It matters not that you know who I am; it is of little importance. This clay garment is one of a penniless pilgrim journeying in the name of peace. It is what you cannot see that is so very important. I am one who is propelled by the power of faith; I bathe in the light of eternal wisdom; I am sustained by the unending energy of the universe; this is who I really am.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Light, Who I Am, Names

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.126, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mean, Soul, Dying

  Saint John Chrysostom, Sir George Prevost (1856). “Homilies: On the Statutes, or, To the people of Antioch. 1856”, p.100

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• Success is such a relative thing for me. I'm fundamentally a Christian which means that ultimately all of the penultimate titles and things you just had to wear with a loose garment. Really.

  Cornel West

  Christian, Mean, Titles

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• Our culture is like a garment that does not fit us, or in any case no longer fits us. This culture is like a dead language that no longer has anything in common with the language of the street. It is increasingly alien to our lives.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Doe, Culture, Common

  "Prospectus et tous écrits suivants, Vol. II". Book by Jean Dubuffet, p. 94, 1967.

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• Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Ends, Filthy

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