Quotes with fig-leaf

Quotes 21 till 26 of 26.

  • Freda Adler The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.
    Freda Adler
    American criminologist and educator (1934 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Barry Cornwall Women are so gentle, so affectionate, so true in sorrow, so untired and untiring! but the leaf withers not sooner, and tropic light fades not more abruptly.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • William Hogarth You know I won't turn over a new leaf I am so obstinate, but then I am no less obstinate in being your affectionate Husband.
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  • Albert Schweitzer Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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