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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it. -- Margaret Cavendish
Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation. -- Joseph Joubert
Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. -- Loren Eiseley
The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Clothing creates the illusion that bodies fit an aesthetically pleasing norm. And that illusion depends on getting the fit right. Garments that bunch, pull, or sag call attention to figure flaws and often make people look worse than they would without clothes. -- Virginia Postrel
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
The body is a sacred garment. -- Martha Graham
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. -- Ambrose Bierce
Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. -- Georg Buchner
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers. -- Herodotus
Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you -- Marilyn vos Savant
Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you. -- Marilyn vos Savant
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. -- Thomas Carlyle
What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home? -- Johann Georg Hamann
Standardized sizes made inexpensive, off-the-rack garments economically feasible. They gave shoppers a reliable guide to finding clothes in self-service shops. -- Virginia Postrel
Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles. -- Maggie Grace
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A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment. -- Otto von Bismarck
I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own. -- Azzedine Alaia
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. -- Jean Giraudoux
In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades. -- Florence Kelley
Indian women love to dress up like princesses. In India, people still go to the market to buy fabrics, garments are made-to-order, and friends come with you to the fittings. -- Sonam Kapoor
Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses. -- Charlie Munger
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. -- Edna Ferber
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed? -- Michelangelo
Remember that, in the end, the customer doesn't know, or care, if you are small or large as an organization - she or he only focuses on the garment hanging on the rail in the store. -- Giorgio Armani
My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother's elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has. -- Elizabeth Jagger
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings. -- Ellsworth Huntington
Wearing a breathable fabric is the most important thing for me. I also love to keep it simple and keep the number of garments I'm wearing ideally at one (a sundress for example), and then add some great jewelry. -- Hilary Rhoda
I need human feelings to fit garments. I couldn't do it just, like, on an object - it's too close to our body. It's like a skin you are making, so you need one's feelings to make a garment. -- Ann Demeulemeester
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. -- Felix Adler
I want to try and wear as many Australian designers as I can because I'd like to support my Australian colleagues in the industry as well as find things that are eco-friendly. I love the green concept of wearing more sustainable garments at events. -- Lucy Fry
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Like most manic depressives, some of my symptoms included racing thoughts that I simply had to act upon - flying from New York to Paris and taking the train to Berlin; flying to Argentina in the middle of the night; spending tens of thousands of dollars on unnecessary garments, dinners and gifts. -- Andy Behrman
Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an unjustifiable number of such outfits and jump at the chance to wear them. Against the etiquette about which I am otherwise all too conscious, I frequently, and unrepentantly, overdress for the occasion. -- Julia Glass
I am a chameleon when it comes the way I dress. I am constantly changing it up, and I really can't commit to one thing because dressing for the day or for an event is really a mood thing. I like variety, and I don't mean just designers, I mean mixing the high-end garments and the cheaper clothing. -- Darby Stanchfield
Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind. -- Ameen Rihani
Borrowed garments never keep one warm. -- James Russell Lowell
Agonies are one of my changes of garments. -- Walt Whitman
Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud. -- Plautus
Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments. -- Charles Spurgeon
A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments. -- Herodotus
No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women. -- Walter Raleigh
There are no garments. There's no undressing now. There's nothing at all. -- Mooji
Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase? -- Steven Wright
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate. -- Sri Aurobindo
To dress up today in the threadbare garments of yesterday is to create an impoverished tomorrow. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments? -- John Calvin
We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well? -- Nicolas Chamfort
The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses. -- Anne Ellis
She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear. -- George R. R. Martin
The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around. -- Robert M. Pirsig
Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together. -- Martha Stewart
Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. -- Edward Blishen
Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal. -- William Shakespeare
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I've gained a few pounds around the middle. The only lower body garments I own that still fit me comfortably are towels. -- Dave Barry
Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled. -- Victor Hugo
Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave. -- Dorothy Parker
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. -- Epictetus
She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch. -- Jack Prelutsky
If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people... -- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov
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
Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life. -- William Osler
If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci
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. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain. -- Bai Juyi
When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Forcing automakers to sell smaller cars to improve fuel economy [is like]... fighting the nation's obesity problem by forcing clothing manufacturers to sell garments in only small sizes. -- Bob Lutz
When talking about marriage, Allah says your spouses are garments for you. A garment may or may not fit perfectly-but either way, it covers imperfections, protects, and beautifies. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato. -- Jonathan Swift
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
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. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. -- Tracy K. Smith
May we look upon our treasure, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try to discover whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these our possessions. -- John Woolman
In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force. -- Subcomandante Marcos
True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
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. -- Louis Aragon
Oh, Spring is surely coming, Her couriers fill the air; Each morn are new arrivals, Each night her ways prepare; I scent her fragrant garments, Her foot is on the stair. -- John Burroughs
I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses. -- Charlie Munger
He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi. -- Chanakya
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. -- William Blake
Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God. -- John Henry Newman
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. -- Laozi
Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
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
Visible nature is but a distorted reflection of a more perfect world and the creative individual viewing her is inspired to perceive within and behind her many garments, that which is timeless and entirely beautiful. -- Lawren Harris

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