Garments Quotes

Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.

The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment.

If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.

Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment.

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

Come o'er the eastern hills, and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath; scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

Times change, people change, thought and feeling take new shapes, put on fresh garments, sons bow their heads unwillingly to that which enraptured their fathers.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

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.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

Silence is the garment of light.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

Love is the garment of knowledge.

Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.

Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.

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

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Why needs a man be rich? Why must he have horses, fine garments, handsome apartments, access to public houses, and places of amusement? Only for want of thought.

Any girl with a grin never looks grim.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

You cannot choose your face but you can choose your dress.

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.