Garments Quotes - Page 12

• 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

  Names, Foundation, Opera

  Song: Otto Titsling, Album: Mud Will Be Flung Tonight!

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• It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God.

  Swami Vivekananda

  God, Men, Inspire

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2379, Manonmani Publishers

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

  Alan Sugar

  Mother, Father, Housewife

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

  Sam Cooke

  Hem, Made, Whole

  Song: Touch the Hem of His Garment, 2003

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• An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

  Eleanor Robson Belmont

  Railroads, Roles, Actors

  Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”

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• Our Lord did not want to remain on earth only through His grace, His truth or His words; He remains in person. We possess the same Lord Jesus Christ Who lived in Judea, although under a different form of life. He has put on a sacramental garment, but He does not cease being Jesus, the Son of God and the Son of Mary.

  Peter Julian Eymard

  Jesus, Son, Grace

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• For a woman, le smoking is an indispensable garment with which she finds herself continually in fashion, because it is about style, not fashion. Fashions come and go, but style is forever.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Fashion, Smoking, Forever

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• As I accepted the change of the golden hair of my childhood to the reddish-brown hair of my youth without regret, so I also accept my silver hair-and I am ready to accept the time when my hair and the rest of my clay garment returns to the dust from which it came, while my spirit goes on to freer living. It is the season for my hair to be silver, and each season has its lessons to teach. Each season of life is wonderful if you have learned the lessons of the season before. It is only when you go on with lessons unlearned that you wish for a return.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Regret, Dust, Hair

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• It is easy for most of us to keep our hands from picking and stealing when picking and stealing plainly lead to prison diet and prison garments. But when silks and satins come of it, and with the silks and satins general respect, the net result of honesty does not seem to be so secure.

  Anthony Trollope

  Honesty, Hands, Doe

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Prime Minister”, p.103, Booklassic

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• 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

  Pain, Lying, Hands

  Tracy K. Smith (2007). “Duende: Poems”, Graywolf Press

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• Science may have come a long way, but as far as religion is concerned, we are first cousins to the !Kung tribesmen of the Kalahari Desert. Except for the garments, their deep religious trances might just as well be happening at a revival meeting or in the congregation of a fundamentalist TV preacher.... As we move further from the life of ignorance and superstition in which religion has its roots, we seem to need it more and more.... Why has religion become a force just when we'd have thought it would be losing ground to secularism?

  Phil Donahue

  Religious, Cousin, Moving

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• 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

  Plato, Pride, Might

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.554

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• Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

  Plautus

  Mud, Manners, Fine

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• I have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Christian, Men, Dust

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• 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

  Romance, Soul, Half

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• Lord Bacon has compared those who move in higher spheres to those heavenly bodies in the firmament, which have much admiration, but little rest. And it is not necessary to invest a wise man with power to convince him that it is a garment bedizened with gold, which dazzles the beholder by its splendor, but oppresses the wearer by its weight.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Moving, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.94

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• Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Baby, Nature, Children

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1873). “Oldport Days”, p.218

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• Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

  James Russell Lowell

  Plagiarism, Borrowed, Warm

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.69

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• 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

  Pride, Color, Doe

  Joseph Addison (1761). “The Works of the Late Right Honorable Joseph Addison, Esq;”, p.250

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

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Women, Gowns

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.367

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• 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

  Thinking, Zippers, Childbirth

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• And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Running, Home, Civilization

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• 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

  Men, Glasses, Names

  Joseph Hall, Josiah Pratt (1808). “The Works: Now First Collected : with Some Account of His Life and Sufferings. Devotional works”, p.23

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• Those who have overcome self-will and become instruments to do God's work can accomplish tasks which are seemingly impossible, but they experience no feeling of self achievement. I now know myself to be a part of the infinite cosmos, not separate from other souls or God. My illusory self is dead; the real self controls the garment of clay and uses it for God's work.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Real, Self, Achievement

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.128, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

  Andre Gide

  Believe, Sleep, Night

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