Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
"If you are gonna wear gloves when you lift, just make sure they match your purse."
Gloves quotes
Gloves
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Sherwood Smith
Author
"One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone."
Cornel Wilde
Actor
"I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up."
Joseph Stalin
Politician, Revolutionary
"You cannot make a revolution with silk gloves."
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"The cat in gloves catches no mice."
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"Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!"
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"No revolution can be made with silk gloves."
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"I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet."
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"The lost glove is happy."
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"I watched a lot of the James Bond movies, certainly, both the old ones and the reboot with Daniel Craig. I watched a lot of the Matt Helm films with Dean Martin, which just have these great car scenes where it's rear-projected, and they just start making martinis out of a bar in the glove compartment."
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"A glove is a very literal looking hand puppet."
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"For me, whenever I'm physical it spins my mind and whenever there's a lot going on I put my gloves on or I wrestle somebody and I feel zen."
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"good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves."
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"Woman is a most charming creature, who changes her heart as easily as she does her gloves."
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"I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down."
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"A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!"
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"I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves."
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"When times are bad, the gloves come off and employers are less nice. People become disposable."
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"One had better put on gloves before handling the New Testament. The presence of so much filth makes it highly advisable."
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"True gardeners cannot bear a glove Between the sure touch and the tender root."
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"I understand that when Gary Oldman was in that suit [Batman], sweat would just drip off of him where they had to have holes in the gloves or something."
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