Top 256 Garment Quotes & Sayings

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

The body is a sacred garment.

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.

Love is the garment of knowledge.

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment.

I know of but one garment which the fashionable social life of this country borrows of Christianity; it is that ample garment of charity which covers a multitude of sins--particularly fashionable sins.

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

Government must be a transparent garment which tightly clings to the people's body.

Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable.

Whenever I sign a garment with my name, I consider myself as the creator of the masterpiece.

If I could just touch the hem of His garment I know I'll be made whole

A much underrated garment, the jegging: they never need ironing and they hold their colour.

XXVIII "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a rock, a mighty fortress; "Often have I been to it, "Even to its highest tower, "From whence the world looks black." "Truth," said a traveller, "Is a breath, a wind, "A shadow, a phantom; "Long have I pursued it, "But never have I touched "The hem of its garment." And I believed the second traveller; For truth was to me A breath, a wind, A shadow, a phantom, And never had I touched The hem of its garment.

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

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

When I design a garment or a piece of accessory, the first question I ask myself is, 'Would I wear it?'

The likeness of Your Church, O Lord, is that woman who went behind and touched the hem of Your garment, saying within herself: 'If I do but touch His garment I shall be whole' (Mt. 9:21). So the Church confesses her wounds, but desires to be healed.

No garment which distorts the shape and motion of the wearer is beautiful, nor s any garment beautiful which emphasizes more than one or at most two of your sexual characteristics.

Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.

I want to put a soul in a garment. I don't want my clothes to be perfect, because human beings are not perfect. You can meet somebody in one of my jackets and it can all look a bit wrong, but also human and beautiful. Cutting nonchalance into a garment is difficult, because you can't just make an oversized or an asymmetric garment - it will look ugly. Making it look natural is delicate work. If it's too obvious, then it looks fake. Balancing the garment is a painstaking task, because you have to keep in mind how the clothes move.

To put on the garment of legitimacy is the first aim of every coup.

Love was a sacred garment, woven of a fabric so thin that it could not be seen, yet so strong that even mighty death could not tear it, a garment that could not be frayed by use, that brought warmth into what would otherwise be an intolerable, cold world- but at times love could also be as heavy as chain mail. Bearing the burden of love, on those occasions when it was a solemn weight, made it more precious when, in better times, it caught the wind in sleeves like wings, and lifted you.

Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the new is the same as acquiring value... If the purchase of a new garment coincides with the wearing out of an old one, then obviously there is no fashion. If a garment is worn beyond the moment of its natural replacement, there is pauperization. Fashion flourishes on surplus, when someone buys more than he or she needs.

A soul which is not clothed with the inner garment of Love should be ashamed of its existence.

youth is a marvelous garment

Twas a clever quibble. Here, a garment for it.

Women are not a garment you wear and undress however you like. They are honored and have their rights.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

I noticed the people who drove the nicest cars were all in the garment business.

The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Even when I became the editor of 'Vogue' - America, I kept moonlighting for a garment store.

The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Know then that the body is merely a garment. Go seek the wearer, not the cloak.

The body is a sacred garment. It's your first and last garment; it is what you enter life in and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.

What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.

The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.

My soul Is Naked. It wears The Transparent Garment Of Love.

It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

Man's experience is indeed a seamless garment, no part of which can be separated from the rest.

The mathematician may be compared to a designer of garments, who is utterly oblivious of the creatures whom his garments may fit. To be sure, his art originated in the necessity for clothing such creatures, but this was long ago; to this day a shape will occasionally appear which will fit into the garment as if the garment had been made for it. Then there is no end of surprise and delight.

My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy.

We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a perfect garment.

Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.

Mind is the master weaver, both of the inner garment of character and the outer garment of circumstance.

Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.

You should live in the world so as it may hang about you like a loose garment.

Silence is the garment of light.

I don't care if New York avoided bankruptcy by substituting tourism for the garment business.