Quotes with fashions

  • Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
  • I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

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  • Norman Cousins A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Voltaire It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Charles Baudelaire All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Barry Ritholtz Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Henry David Thoreau Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Yves Saint-Laurent Fashions fade, but style is eternal.
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    French fashion designer (1936 - 2008)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lillian Hellman I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.
    Lillian Hellman
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Alexander Pope In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Voltaire It is new fancy rathert than taste which produces so many new fashions.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Anna Quindlen Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Margaret Mead People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like that, but Americans live in white detached houses with green shutters. Rigidly, blindly, the dream takes precedence.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Alighieri Dante The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There are vogues and fashions in jurisprudence as in literature and art and dress.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Abba Goold Woolson Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.
    Abba Goold Woolson
    American writer (0 - 1921)
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