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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

Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. — Akhenaton

Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment. — Cornelia Funke

It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them. — Charles Spurgeon

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup. — Barbara Tuchman

Silence is the garment of light. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. — Martin Luther King Jr.

I noticed the people who drove the nicest cars were all in the garment business. — Do Won Chang

As a house implies a builder, and a garment a weaver, and a door a carpenter, so does the existence of the Universe imply a Creator. — Luc De Clapiers

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment. — Joseph Joubert

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person]. — John Chrysostom

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired. — Samuel Smiles

My soul Is Naked.
It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love. — Rumi

Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes? — John Heywood

You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop. — Eva Jessye

Deceit is a kind of garment that conceals the soul. It might even be compared to a whole wardrobe, so many are its guises. — Maria Montessori

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

Fraa Jad took the garment from me and discovered how the fly worked. "Topology is destiny," he said, and put the drawers on. — Neal Stephenson

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse. — Charles Spurgeon

Join a Highland regiment, me boy. The kilt is an unrivalled garment for fornication and diarrhoea. — Graham Lord

People who want to rise above a well-cooked meal and a well-tailored garment, are out of their spiritual minds. — Anthony De Mello

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

Even when I became the editor of 'Vogue' - America, I kept moonlighting for a garment store. — Mary McFadden

in contrast to a garment of praise, guilt is the uniform. It's a straitjacket called fatalism. — Terry Law

Many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags. — Rita Mae Brown

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Besides, my old opinions - at least, the greater part of them - are now in tatters, like a worn-out garment. But — Henryk Sienkiewicz

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment. — Louise Erdrich

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. — Matthew Henry

Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise. — F.B. Meyer

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

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. — Jack Vance

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens

God is not satisfied with appearance. God wants the garment of justice. God wants his Christians dressed in love. — Oscar Romero

To think we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth. — Jane Wagner

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

What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center. — Al Lewis

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

One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets ... — Idries Shah

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise. — Martin Luther

I know it is strange to feel an emotional connection to a garment, but strange seems to summarize my thinking process in general. — Katie Kacvinsky

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business. — Fran Lebowitz

The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [ ... ] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces. — Thomas Friedman

Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride
That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide:
Hatred of God may bring the soul to God. — William Butler Yeats

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

Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race. — Victor Hugo

Sweater, n. Garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly. — Ambrose Bierce

A long past vividly remembered is like a heavy garment that clings to your limbs when you would run. — Mary Antin

Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase? — Steven Wright

'Fashion Star' has been an incredible platform to show America the amount of work and discussion that goes into each garment you see in a store. — Nicole Richie

Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another ... it's merely a transition. — Wayne Dyer

A soul which is not clothed
with the inner garment of Love
should be ashamed of its existence. — Rumi

When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers. — Herodotus

Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it. — William Shakespeare

Truth ... Is a breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom; Long have I pursued it, But never have I touched The hem of its garment. — Stephen Crane

Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair. — Heinrich Heine

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae — Larry McMurtry

youth is a marvelous garment — Iris Murdoch

Love is a garment
riven in the light
that rises from Parnassus,
showing
the night is over. — Hilda Doolittle

Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying? — Tom Bodett

Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights. — Umar

If I could just touch the hem of His garment
I know I'll be made whole — Sam Cooke

For she kept saying to herself, If I only touch His garment, I shall be restored to health. — Anonymous

Their garment? Have they but one?"
"Ah, good your Worship, what would they do with more? Truly they have not two bodies each. — Mark Twain

As he turned inwards she turned outwards, but while he wore his intensity like a garment, she slept in hers. — Jeanette Winterson

Regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it" (Colossians 3:14). — Stephen W. Smith

When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body. — Georg Buchner

We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny ... I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be. — Martin Luther King Jr.

If you have ever clothed another with woe, as with a garment of pain, you will never be quite as happy as though you had not done that thing. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Whoever's designing for plus-size doesn't get it. The entire garment needs to be reconceived. You can't just take a size 8 and make it larger. — Tim Gunn

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. — Ray Bradbury

Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak. — Rumi

The mouthpiece of the half-inarticulate, all-suggesting music that is at once the very soul and the inseparable garment of romance. — Walther Von Der Vogelweide

I am sorry to shock you," she said. "But the moth eats the garment somewhat in five-and thirty years. — Thomas Hardy

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker. — Alan Sugar

Love is the garment of knowledge. — Kenneth Rexroth

He releases the button on my coat with the snap of his fingers. The traitorous garment flips open, as if to say Help yourself, mister! — Sally Thorne

The inventor of the modern foundation garment that we women wear today was a German scientist and opera lover by the name of Otto Titsling. — Bette Midler

GEN25.25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. GEN25.26 — Anonymous

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. — Kahlil Gibran

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. — Ferdinand De Saussure

A ship without Marines is like a garment without buttons. — David Dixon Porter

28 Man [3] wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten. — Anonymous

Collis, unaware that he was without a wedding garment, heralded his arrival with: I reckon I'm late
the beyed has flown. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must. — Mother Teresa

Human beings and the environment compose a seamless garment of existence, a multicolored cloth, which we believe to be woven in its entirety by God. — Bartholomaus

He who wears his morality but as his best garment were better naked.
The wind and the sun will tear no holes in his skin. — Kahlil Gibran

My words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. — W.S. Merwin

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment. — Sir George Savile, 8th Baronet

My fear fell from me as if it had been a vaporous garment which dissolved in the warmth. — Bram Stoker

The human being now simply can't close his elected garment about himself. Obligations to one's fellows perhaps prevent full buttoning by artists. — Saul Bellow

He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him. — John Flavel

Patience is a garment which has never worn out. — Idries Shah

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world. — Kate Chopin

May the Lord array thee in the garment of salvation and surround thee with the cloak of happiness. — Pope Alexander VI

The body is a sacred garment. — Martha Graham