A Quote by Martin Luther

Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

Martin Luther

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Martin Luther
German - Leader
November 10, 1483 - February 18, 1546

Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in life or career that you, like Adam and Eve, got lost in the garden putting fig leaf after fig leaf title, relationship, this accolade, this saying over you that you forgot who you were and what's life's about? So getting back to the core of that and building life by design, that is authentic.

Paula White

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Florence King

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

Ralph Nader

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Anne Spencer

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

Saul Bellow

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Mark Twain

Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Florence King

Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

John Eldredge

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

Timothy Leary

Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

Bethany McLean

Clothes are nothing more than a fig leaf. And the bodies beneath are just another layer of clothing, an outfit of flesh with an impractically thin leather exterior, in various shades of pink, yellow and brown. The souls alone are real. Seen in this way, there can never be any such thing as social unease or shyness or embarrassment. All you need do is greet your fellow soul.

Michel Faber

'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

If a leaf fell from a tree, I'd stop juggling and play with the leaf. I went to my prop bag and got a little bandage and stuck the leaf back on the tree. People loved it.

Philippe Petit

Too many developers still treat cultural strategies as a fig leaf to get planning permission, rather than make a thoughtful, genuine commitment to the cultural life of their areas.

Munira Mirza

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

Honore de Balzac

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