Quotes
Quotes about Clothes
(Cloten:) Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes? (Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal, Who is thy grandfather. He made those clothes, Which, as it seems, make thee.
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Judge not a man by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes.
Good clothes open all doors.
The best-dressed woman is one whose clothes wouldn't look too strange in the country.
'Why don't you step out of those wet clothes and into a dry martini?'
The butcher in his killing clothes.
Commemoration of John & Henry Venn, Priests, Evangelical Divines, 1813, 1873 Here [in the Gospels] is something that the layman can hold on to, quite apart from the vagaries of critical scholarship, for it is a portrait unaffected by the authenticity of any particular saying or story. Such an encounter with the historical Jesus is, of course, not the same as Christian faith in him. Even Caiaphas, Herod, and Pontius Pilate encountered him in this way. Christian faith is still a matter of decisionâeither this Man is God's redemptive act, or he is not. Nor is the historical Jesus the object of our faith. That object is the Risen Christ preached by the Church. But the Risen Christ is in continuity with the historical Jesus, and it is the historical Jesus which makes the Risen Christ not just an abstraction, but clothes him with flesh and blood.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.
Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.
Clothes don't make the man, but clothes have got many a man a good job.
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a wearer of new clothes.
Keeping your clothes well pressed will keep you from looking hard pressed.
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men, any more than fine feathers make fine birds. A plain, genteel dress is more admired, obtains more credit in the eyes of the judicious and sensible.
Clothes make the man.
The well-dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice.
Death my lord, Their clothes are after such a pagan cut to 't That sure th' have worn out Christendom.
A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave them to bleach out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,-- But we forget not, never can forget.
People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothesâpretty 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.
Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?
On a March clothesline .. transparent icicles in a row in the bright sun they drip and glow Marks of exclamation !!!!!!!!!! a sentence of joyful exclamation !!!!!!!!
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of a manâthe biography of the man himself cannot be written.
