Top 179 Garments Quotes & Sayings

If I call it pain, and try to touch it With my hands, my own life, It lies still and the music thins, A pulse felt for through garments.

The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.

My father had a garments business in Delhi which shut down.

If you want to conquer conceit, do not desire praise, laurels, nice garments, respect, favor, but like to be blamed and slandered by people.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

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.

Growing up, at high school, we all used to wear Champion garments, which, in America, are standard-issue gym uniforms.

Vulgarity of manners defiles fine garments more than mud.

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich

She had put despair and fear aside, as if they were garments she did not choose to wear.

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato.

Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.

Why do we put suits in a garment bag and put garments in a suitcase?

My parents have influenced my fashion choices. I inherited many of their older garments, and I like their style. I love my mother's elegant and dramatic couture dresses and the feeling for colour my father has.

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.

Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity,-- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on through life with steps aright.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.

I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

When I look at the five thousand garments and then all this music hall work, I ask myself how I could have done it all. I was a phenomenon!

we Princes are set as it were upon stages, in the sight and view of all the world. The least spot is soon spied in our garments, a blemish quickly noticed in our doings.

No man is esteemed for colorful garments except by fools and women.

Spring is all about looser garments.

Just like music evokes emotion, so can garments.

You've been complaining, you've been depressed, you've been despondent. But take off those garments of heaviness and put back on your garments of praise. I didn't come when you thought I was going to come, but I'm going to be right on time.

I've gained a few pounds around the middle. The only lower body garments I own that still fit me comfortably are towels.

I have previously been a very enthusiastic consumer, and I didn't think about the origins of garments enough.

The Rouje woman is free, natural, and likes to be confident and comfortable in her garments.

Perhaps it's the artist in me, but most days, I try to reflect the atmosphere my spirit is breathing in and let the wind carry me to the garments that can deliver that look and feeling in my closet.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

I just knew that there was a gap in the market for easy, comfortable garments that are neither luxury nor pret, but somewhere in between.

I had used the stretch materials for years to shape the inside of garments I made for private clients. Then I just started using them on their own.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.

Indian women love to dress up like princesses. In India, people still go to the market to buy fabrics, garments are made-to-order, and friends come with you to the fittings.

Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.

And there are loners in rural communities who, at the equinox, are said to don new garments and stroll down to the cities, where great beasts await them, fat and docile.

In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.

Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.

He who wears unclean garments, has dirty teeth, is a glutton, speaks unkindly and sleeps after sunrise - although he may be the greatest personality - will lose the favour of Lakshmi.

Gold is a great thing to sew into your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but I think civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

There are no garments. There's no undressing now. There's nothing at all.

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.

I enjoyed dressing in Indian clothes. I loved those long, single-piece garments that come down to the knees and the white pyjamas you wear underneath.

Standardized sizes made inexpensive, off-the-rack garments economically feasible. They gave shoppers a reliable guide to finding clothes in self-service shops.

Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.

A woman takes off her claim to respect along with her garments.

She comes by night, in fearsome flight, in garments black as pitch, the queen of doom upon her broom, the wild and wicked witch.

Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.

We are told truly that meekness and modesty are the rich and charming garments of the soul. The less showy our outward attire is, the more distinctly and brilliantly does the beauty of these inner garments shine.

You can tailor garments all you want, but if it doesn't fit in the arms or legs, it never will.

Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

Indian-styled garments are very popular in the U.S., especially in areas near the beach, like Hawaii and Los Angeles.

Some have lavish garments, carry sharp swords, and feast on food and drink. They possess more than they can spend. This is called the vanity of robbers. It is certainly not the Way.