Quotes with clothes

  • The vagabond who's rapping at your door, Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
  • As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
  • Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
  • When I talk about rock n' roll, to me, that goes back to the beginning of the 1950s. Blue suede shoes and sideburns, man. Pink and black coloured clothes. Turn your collar up, comb your hair in ducktails. And the music was cool. It was a whole culture then - a different world.
  • I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.
  • Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance
  • What a man most enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them.
  • Only buy clothes that you plan to keep forever. It's important to see trends for what they are: a game.
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  • Joseph Addison A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Don Marquis Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will be powerless to vex your mind.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Carl Honore Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Mark Twain Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Sydney Smith Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Achille Maramotti Fashion is never in crisis because clothes are always necessary.
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  • William Shakespeare Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Henry J. Kaiser Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
    Henry J. Kaiser
    American industrialist (1882 - 1967)
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  • Sir Matthew Hale The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.
    Sir Matthew Hale
     
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  • Carl Sandburg A liar goes in fine clothes,
    A liar goes in rags.
    A liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Raymond Chandler Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Boris Johnson All the people I talk to, increasingly, can see that the emperor has got no clothes. The case for leaving [the EU] is now overwhelming.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita As person abandons worn-out clothes and acquires new ones, so when the body is worn out a new one is acquired by the Self, who lives within.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Micheal Mescon Be it furniture, clothes, or health care, many industries today are marketing nothing more than commodities - no more, no less. What will make the difference in the long run is the care and feeding of customers.
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Henry David Thoreau Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
    Walden (1854)
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Mark Twain Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Buck Owens But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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