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Quotes about Clothes


What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself?

William Shakespeare

Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

Jerry Della Femina

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more. Modesty died when clothes were born. Modesty died when false modesty was born.

Mark Twain

Tombs are the clothes of the dead; a grave is but a plain suit; a rich monument is an embroidered one.

Thomas Fuller

Tombs are the clothes of the dead. A grave is but a plain suit, and a rich monument is one embroidered.

Thomas Fuller

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

O, the mulberry-tree is of trees the queen! Bare long after the rest are green; But as the time steals onwards, while none perceives Slowly she clothes herself with leaves-- Hides her fruit under them, hard to find. . . . . But by and by, when the flowers grow few And the fruits are dwindling and small to view-- Out she comes in her matron grace With the purple myriads of her race; Full of plenty from root to crown, Showering plenty her feet adown. While far over head hang gorgeously Large luscious berries of sanguine dye, For the best grows highest, always highest, Upon the mulberry-tree.

Dinah Maria Mulock (used pseudonym Mrs. Craik)

Nothing to do but work, Nothing to eat but food, Nothing to wear out but clothes, To keep one from going nude.

Benjamin Franklin King, Jr.

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

Oliver Goldsmith

God sendeth cold after clothes.

William Camden

God sends cold according to Cloathes. [God sends cold according to clothes.]

George Herbert

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Francis Quarles

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

Henry Kaiser

Most skiers are really motorcyclists in cute clothes.

Bob Wilkerson

That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my fucking clothes. (explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker)

Stu Grimson

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

Hunter S. Thompson

Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.

Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

'Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?

John Heywood

(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.

William Shakespeare

Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked.

Thomas Fuller

A period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

Robert Anonymous

What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

Alexander Pope

As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.

Donald Marquis (D.R.P. Marquis) ("Don Marquis")

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