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

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

Since all the Amish dress the same, our names were on a label inside the garments, and shawls — Ora Jay Eash

US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army. — Mary Roach

The lines and verses are only the outward garments of the poem and are no more really it than your ruffles and flounces are YOU, — L.M. Montgomery

I lay still for a while, picking up the scattered garments of my mind and trying to assemble some kind of reasonable outfit from them. — Richard K. Morgan

I see no priestly garments on you. There is no ephod on your belt. You presume to speak for Yahweh? You speak his name aloud so lightly? — Cliff Graham

Drink from the fountain of youth and cloak yourself in the garments of wisdom. — Truth Devour

Whenever I sign a garment with my name, I consider myself as the creator of the masterpiece. — Paul Poiret

After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment. — W. A. Criswell

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

To dress up today in the threadbare garments of yesterday is to create an impoverished tomorrow. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Truth does not need to borrow garments from falsehood. — Jose Rizal

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

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

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature. — Edward Blishen

Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled. — Victor Hugo

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

Agonies are one of my changes of garments. — Walt Whitman

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

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

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

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles. — Maggie Grace

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave. — Dorothy Parker

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

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear. — George R R Martin

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

Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal. — William Shakespeare

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new. — Epictetus

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

Not long after, as Tom, all undressed for bed, was surveying his drenched garments by the light of — Mark Twain

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

The moon is my mother. She is not sweet like Mary.
Her blue garments unloose small bats and owls. — Sylvia Plath

Nature is the living, visible garment of God. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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

Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest. — Cleanth Brooks

And came back through heavy rain, with streaming garments, but with a relieved heart. — Charlotte Bronte

Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments? — John Calvin

My soul shall be joyful in my God; For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation, He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, — Anonymous

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

Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments. — Charles Spurgeon

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

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

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

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

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

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments. — Herodotus

You can tailor garments all you want, but if it doesn't fit in the arms or legs, it never will. — Amar'e Stoudemire

Be able to tell whether garments that look good on the hanger actually look good on you. — Marilyn Vos Savant

As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, the soul similarly accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones. — Gadadhara Pandit Dasa

Borrowed garments never keep one warm. — James Russell Lowell

The fig leaf garments of good works will never do! Faith in the blood of Christ is the only righteousness we can claim. — Ervin N. Hershberger

the trees were putting on their September garments, brown and red and yellow, — Jeff VanderMeer

Garments are our second skin, and the truer of the two for being the one we choose. — A.E. Marling

On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,
My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Words are not the essence but the garments of prayer. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud. — Plautus

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

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

Love is the garment of knowledge. — Kenneth Rexroth

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women. — Walter Raleigh

She was a very old lady indeed, or at least she looked it. She leaned on a hawthorn stick, enveloped in garments she must have — Diana Gabaldon

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

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

There are no garments. There's no undressing now. There's nothing at all. — Mooji

I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough. — Erin O'Connor

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

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate. — Sri Aurobindo

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