Khalil Gibran Quotes, Wind Quotes, Clothes Quotes

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may find in them a harness and a chain. Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more of your body and less of your raiment.

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Go strip off your clothes that are a nuisance in this mellow clime. Get in and wrestle with the sea; wing your heels with the skill and power that reside in you, hit the sea's breakers, master them, and ride upon their backs as a king should.

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Those who do not study are only cattle dressed up in men's clothes.

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I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.

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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

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Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

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I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fashion Quotes , Clothes Quotes

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

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Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

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Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

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Georgian England, to see those wonderful houses being built. And the clothes were interesting too, although I wouldn't want to wear a wig. It's also the most beautiful period of English landscape gardening. They had famous gardeners like Capability Brown.

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Foppery is the egotism of clothes.

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I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

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It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions

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He would give all of his clothes to his servant, admonishing him NOT to return them until he had completed his day's work.

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There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them.

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To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

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There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half shirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the shoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Two Quotes , Clothes Quotes

Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.

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