Togas Quotes

• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Political, Gentleman

  Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov 1963.

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• Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

  Augustus

  Race, World, Conqueror

  "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.

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• Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Yield, Arms, Praise

  Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• All forms of sexual loving become acceptable if the lovers wear togas or wolfskins.

  Naomi Mitchison

  Sex, Lovers, Form

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• Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Mother, Men, Moon

  "Lavinia". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2008.

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• In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of a massive golden statue of the big dude himself:Jupiter the sky god, dressed in a silk XXXL purple toga, holding a lightning bolt. "It doesn't look like that," Percy muttered. "What?" Hazel asked. "The master bolt," Percy said. "What are you talking about?" "I-" Percy frowned. For a second, he'd thought he remembered something. Now it was gone. "Nothing, I guess.

  Rick Riordan

  Kids, Talking, Sky

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• Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.

  Les Wexner

  Rome, Remember, Salesman

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• It's more than just a dress; it's a spirit. The wrap dress was an interesting cultural phenomenon, and one that has lasted 30 years. What is so special about it is that it's actually a very traditional form of clothing. It's like a toga, it's like a kimono, without buttons, without a zipper. What made my wrap dresses different is that they were made out of jersey and they sculpted the body.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Years, Zippers, Interesting

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• It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Sweat, Force

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• Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?

  Rick Riordan

  Twists

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class).
  [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Class, Speech, Language

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• The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Civilization, Memorial

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1987). “Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture”

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• The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Yoga, Rome, Way

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Party, School, College

  "Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones : Rock God Meets Rock Child". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 06, 2011.

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• Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

  Steven Pinker

  Latin, Writing, Editing

  Steven Pinker (1994). “The Language Instinct”, William Morrow & Company

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• The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Zippers, Buttons, Dresses

  "Diane von Furstenberg On Wrap Dresses And The Joys Of Aging Gracefully". Interview with Amanda Christine Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Peace, War, Yield

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• Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

  Ridley Scott

  Robins, Robin Hood, Sandals

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Stay Strong, Actors, Remember

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• Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

  Ben Hecht

  Bible, Book, League

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Sweat, Futility

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

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• A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

  John Ashbery

  Perfect, Example, Republic

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• Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?

  Rick Riordan

  Bed, Ghost, Aids

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• Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

  Richard Overy

  Hunting, Fur, Goering

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