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When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest. -- John Phillips
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. -- Charles Dickens
But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else. -- Rosa Bonheur
Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. -- William Penn
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. -- Michel de Montaigne
Words themselves are the intimate attire of thoughts and feelings. -- Karen Elizabeth Gordon
To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire. -- Democritus
People used to wear ordinary clothes weekdays, and formal attire on Sunday. Today it is the exact reverse. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other. -- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't? -- William Shakespeare
I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public. -- Lady Gaga
We want to create a society in which our workers and farmers can afford to appear in handsome attire and enjoy a good life and health; we want this kind of society. -- Nur Muhammad Taraki
Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony. -- Abba Louisa Goold Woolson
There is no strength that is greater than the strength of virtue. There is no other nobility equal to the nobility of virtue. There is no quality so becoming, no attire so attractive. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings, for driving automobiles without a man beside them, for wearing outlandish attire for example, shorts -- Geoffrey Perret
Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow? -- Karen Marie Moning
To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking. -- Joseph Addison
... Any county's moral strength, or its moral weakness, is quickly measurable by the street attire and attitude of its women - especially its young women. Wherever ... spiritual values have been submerged, if not destroyed, by an emphasis upon ... material things, invariably the women reflect it. -- Malcolm X
Where virtue is, sensibility is the ornament and becoming attire of virtue. On certain occasions it may almost be said to become virtue. But sensibility and all the amiable qualities may likewise become, and too often have become, the panders of vice and the instruments of seduction. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I'm from the south side of Atlanta, College Park, and we all really care about our dress code and our apparel and our attire, so I think it's just something that started when I was growing up. Just trying to be me and up to date and being an individual at the same time. -- 2 Chainz
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. -- Charles Sumner
When Diogenes came to Olympia and perceived some Rhodian youths dressed with great splendor and magnificence, he said with a smile of contempt, "This is all arrogance." Afterwards some Lacedemonians came in his way, as mean and as sordid in their attire as the dress of the others was rich. "This," said he, "is also arrogance. -- Claudius Aelianus
I love the Cannes Film Festival. From the lavish parties and events to the red carpet attire, this star-studded week-long event is where I get a lot of inspiration for hair and fashion. -- Tabatha Coffey
At home, I'm not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to the mountains to light fires and have barbecues. Even then, The Killers are usually in the back of my mind. -- Brandon Flowers
Sisters, when about their work, should not put on clothing which would make them look like images to frighten the crows from the corn. It is more gratifying to their husbands and children to see them in a becoming, well-fitting, attire, than it can be to merely visitors or strangers. -- Ellen G. White
I plan my golf outfits for the tournaments, I recycle some for the practice rounds, but I always have new ideas for my golf attire, and I like to dress nice after the rounds, so I have to bring all my heels. It's terrible. The worst part about being on tour is living out of a suitcase. -- Paula Creamer
Wear audacious underwear under the most solemn business attire. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self... -- Chris Brown
Modern life requires us to be more and more flexible in our attire. -- Giorgio Armani
Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse's preferred attire was evening wear, -- Holland Cotter
I really like The Dudleyz' new attire. It has that whole Bushwhackers 2000 feel. -- Edge
Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know. -- John Donne
You work side is for everybody. When you're at home, you're not wearing heels and your work attire. -- Carrie Underwood
Good hearts carry weighing balance that measures others' values based on the character merely than ever with their attire, wealth, rank or position. -- Anuj
The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and, finally, even subtly penetrates the features of his face. -- Charles Baudelaire
It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire. -- Jane Austen

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