Old Clothes Quotes

• There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer a kind of anonymity on one who wears them gladly; all their bright places rubbed to a uniform dullness, they achieve an appearance so nearly nondescript that only a close scrutiny could learn that ever they held shape at all.

  Maude Meagher

  Blessing, Clothes, Special

  Maude Meagher (1931). “Fantastic Traveller”

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• ... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

  Dorothy Gilman

  Book, Clothes, Old Friends

  Dorothy Gilman (2007). “Kaleidoscope”, p.96, Ballantine Books

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• People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

  Milton A. Lee

  Smile, Determination, Laughter

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• Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

  E. M. Forster

  Fashion, Clothes, Deep Life

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics

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• Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

  Kevin Rowland

  Artist, Clothes, Tortured Artists

  Liner notes to "Searching For the Young Soul Rebels" album, 1980.

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• Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Clothes

  1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.3, ch.6.

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• It's amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you'd wear again someday?

  Cheryl Richardson

  Encouragement, Clothes, Energy

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• I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Change, Truth, Clothes

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

  Myrtle Reed

  Memorable, Thinking, Clothes

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.69, Library of Alexandria

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• The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.

  Texas Bix Bender

  Garden, Hands, Clothes

  Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books

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• A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Birthday, Old Habits, Clothes

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• Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.

  River Phoenix

  Children, Kids, Names

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

  Don Marquis

  Liars, Lying, Lakes

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• People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Friendship, Life Changing, Mean

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• I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

  David Niven

  Two, Clothes, Complaining

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.

  William Carlos Williams

  Flower, Book, Clothes

  William Carlos Williams (1938). “The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938”, Norfolk, Conn.

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• Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven

  John Irving

  Clothes, Heaven, Sells

  John Irving (2012). “The Hotel New Hampshire”, p.488, Random House

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• I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines

  Christian Lacroix

  Book, Clothes, Grandparent

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• Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clothes, Coats, Flesh

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.211, Princeton University Press

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• [Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Clothes, Dresses

  Sports Illustrated, 1988.

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• I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Hunting, Hair, Clothes

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• Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Boys, Clothes, Environmental

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.24, Graphic Arts Books

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• Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile.

  Rick Riordan

  Cute, Sorry, Jealous

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• Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I'd no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I'll carry them until someone amputates my arms.

  Kate Braverman

  Children, Fire, Talking

  Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”

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• True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.

  P. T. Barnum

  Clothes, Dresses, Income

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books

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