Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave."
Garments quotes
Garments
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Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"My soul Is Naked. It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence."
Sri Aurobindo
Philosopher, Poet, Politician
"Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?"
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"Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak."
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"Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life."
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"She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear."
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"Agonies are one of my changes of garments."
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"There are no garments. There's no undressing now. There's nothing at all."
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"Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment."
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"Silence is the garment of light."
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"If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?"
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"The lunatic fringe is more like a Spanish shawl, where the fringe makes up the entire garment."
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"A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers."
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"Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it."
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"Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment."
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"Borrowed garments never keep one warm."
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"Nature is the living, visible garment of God."
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"We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny."
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