Suits Quotes - Page 28

• Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Suits Of Armor, Thorns, Misanthropy

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• We need not envy certain people their great wealth; they acquired it at a heavy cost, which would not suit us; they staked their rest, their health, their honour and their conscience to acquire it, the price is too high, and there is nothing to be gained by such a bargain.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Class, Envy

  "Of Worldly Goods". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Writing, Justice, Perfection

  "Characters: Of Works of the Mind," #67, 1688.

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• Stupidity is not my strong suit.

  Paul Valery

  Strong, Stupidity

  "Monsieur Teste". Book by Paul Valery, 1919.

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• The only riot I’m okay with is a zoot suit riot.

  Julie Klausner

  Okay, Riot

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• So far as the object of taxation is to raise a revenue for discharging the debts and defraying the expenses of the community, its operation should be adapted as much as possible to suit the burden with equal hand upon all in proportion with their ability of bearing it without oppression.

  John Quincy Adams

  Hands, Community, Taxation

  John Quincy Adams, Kenneth V. Jones, United States. President (1825-1829 : Adams) (1970). “John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”, Oceana Pubns

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• All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green...

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Spring, Autumn

  Ray Bradbury (2002). “I Live by the Invisible: New & Selected Poems”, p.25, Salmon Publishing

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• I don't like the idea of agents in a typical form. The idea of agents, to me, brings up the idea of a man in a very boring suit who's not very good looking and doesn't have much attention to style.

  Guy Ritchie

  Men, Ideas, Style

  Source: collider.com

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• It suits my own attitude toward the world and its people to believe that the Raven is this completely self-centered, uninvolved bringer of change, through inadvertence and accident, and so on... It's a version of the Raven myth for today, not for the time when it was created.

  Bill Reid

  Attitude, Believe, Ravens

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• When men set out to kill and bully, they dress up. Suit of armor. Combat boots. Uniform.

  Timothy Leary

  Men, Suits Of Armor, Bully

  Timothy Leary (2012). “High Priest”, p.127, Ronin Publishing

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• Unity is the only way in which the people of this country can overthrow the fascists, communists, capitalists, and all the other assholes who claim running a representative government is so difficult. The emphasis has been taken from the Bill of Rights and placed on the type of interpretation of the Constitution that best suits the people in power.

  William Powell

  Running, Country, Taken

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 78, 1971.

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• Happiness, like air and water, the other two great requisites of life, is composite. One kind of it suits one man, another kind another. The elevated mind takes in and breathes out again that which would be uncongenial to the baser; and the baser draws life and enjoyment from that which would be putridity to the loftier.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Happiness, Men, Air

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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• I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous.

  John Buchan

  Clothes, Trying, Way

  John Buchan (2016). “JOHN BUCHAN – Ultimate Collection: 28 Novels & 40+ Short Stories (Including Poems, War Writings, Essays, Biographies & Memoirs) - Illustrated: Thriller Classics, Spy Novels, Supernatural Tales, Historical Works, The Great War Writings & Autobiography; Including Complete Richard Hannay, Dickson McCunn & Sir Edward Leithen Series”, p.1461, e-artnow

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• Anybody interested in solving, rather than profiting from, the problems of food production and distribution will see that in the long run the safest food supply is a local food supply, not a supply that is dependent on a global economy. Nations and regions within nations must be left free and should be encouraged to develop the local food economies that best suit local needs and local conditions.

  Wendell Berry

  Running, Long, Needs

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.266, Counterpoint

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• Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

  Ada Leverson

  Black, Looks, Wells

  Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

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• "There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived is true." A profound psychological mistake. It is true only of formal logic, wherein the mind never quits the sphere of its first assumptions to pass out into the sphere of real existences; no sooner does the mind pass from the internal order to the external order, than the necessity of verifying the strict correspondence between the two becomes absolute. The Ideal Test must be supplemented by the Real Test, to suit the new conditions of the problem.

  George Henry Lewes

  Real, Mistake, Two

  "Aristotle: a Chapter from the History of Science" by George Henry Lewes, (Ch. 4), 1864.

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• Education is being redefined at the demand of the uneducated to suit the ideas of the uneducated. The student now goes to college to proclaim, rather than to learn.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Education, College, Ideas

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• The least amount of buttons [in suit], the better. If you have to go with three, you can go three. But all that eight-button stuff? Nuh-uh, not a fan.

  Chris Paul

  Eight, Buttons, Fans

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living.

  Paul Potts

  Phones, Teeth, Firsts

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• Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.

  Sara Genn

  Progress, Thrown, Ashtrays

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• I'm not into fashion at all. I always wear the same thing: dark suits. I don't even know where I get them.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fashion, Dark, Knows

  "New Again: Muhammad Ali". Interview with Daniela Morera, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2012.

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• Indeed, the ideal for a well-functioning democratic state is like the ideal for a gentleman's well-cut suit it is not noticed. For the common people of Britain, Gestapo and concentration camps have approximately the same degree of reality as the monster of Loch Ness. Atrocity propaganda is helpless against this healthy lack of imagination.

  Arthur Koestler

  Cutting, Reality, Imagination

  "A Challenge to 'Knights in Rusty Armor". The New York Times, February 14, 1943.

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• We should make politicians dress like race car drivers -- when they get money, make them wear the company logos on their suit.

  Jay Leno

  Race, Car, Dresses

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• I’m not interested in changing either my suit or my car or whatever with every change in fashion. That’s irrelevant. I don’t judge myself or my friends by their fashions. Of course, I don’t approve of people who are sloppy and unnecessarily shabby or dishevelled… But I’m not impressed by a US$5,000 or US$10,000 Armani suit.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Fashion, Judging, Car

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.148, Editions Didier Millet

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• During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.

  Will Cuppy

  Home, Years, Elephants

  Will Cuppy (2008). “The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody”, p.43, David R. Godine Publisher

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