Old Clothes Quotes

• People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

  Milton A. Lee

  Smile, Determination, Laughter

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• ... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Book, Clothes, Old Friends

  Dorothy Gilman (2007). “Kaleidoscope”, p.96, Ballantine Books

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• There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer a kind of anonymity on one who wears them gladly; all their bright places rubbed to a uniform dullness, they achieve an appearance so nearly nondescript that only a close scrutiny could learn that ever they held shape at all.

  Maude Meagher

  Blessing, Clothes, Special

  Maude Meagher (1931). “Fantastic Traveller”

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• Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

  Kevin Rowland

  Artist, Clothes, Tortured Artists

  Liner notes to "Searching For the Young Soul Rebels" album, 1980.

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• Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

  E. M. Forster

  Fashion, Clothes, Deep Life

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• It's amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you'd wear again someday?

  Cheryl Richardson

  Encouragement, Clothes, Energy

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• Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Clothes

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.3, ch.6.

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• I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Truth, Clothes

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Garden, Hands, Clothes

  Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books

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• Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

  Myrtle Reed

  Memorable, Thinking, Clothes

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.69, Library of Alexandria

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• A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Birthday, Old Habits, Clothes

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• Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

  River Phoenix

  Children, Kids, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

  Don Marquis

  Liars, Lying, Lakes

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• People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Friendship, Life Changing, Mean

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• I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

  David Niven

  Two, Clothes, Complaining

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.

  William Carlos Williams

  Flower, Book, Clothes

  William Carlos Williams (1938). “The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938”, Norfolk, Conn.

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• Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven

  John Irving

  Clothes, Heaven, Sells

  John Irving (2012). “The Hotel New Hampshire”, p.488, Random House

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• I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

  Christian Lacroix

  Book, Clothes, Grandparent

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• Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clothes, Coats, Flesh

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.211, Princeton University Press

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• [Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Clothes, Dresses

  Sports Illustrated, 1988.

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• I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hunting, Hair, Clothes

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• There was a loneliness because kids my age had video games, tennis. They traveled. They had beautiful clothes. I was wearing my sisters' old clothes that were adjusted on me, because we didn't have money to buy clothes. So that really made me go deep inside on my heart, because the only things I could have with me were my heart and my brain.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Beautiful, Loneliness, Heart

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

  P. T. Barnum

  Clothes, Dresses, Income

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.

  George MacDonald

  Children, Cutting, Thinking

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1833, Delphi Classics

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• And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

  Peter Ackroyd

  Smell, Clothes, Creating

  1987 Chatterton, ch.5.

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