Top 152 Robes Quotes & Sayings

Democrats creating the expectation that judges should act as politicians in robes is a dangerous precedent to set, threatening the very independence of the judiciary.

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding.

I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight.

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

There are some in black robes sitting on federal benches all across this country. They're Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and even conservatives that pervert the Constitution.

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted on a camel, leading the Arab tribes against the Turks in World War One.

Man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar.

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

I shaved my hair. I wore robes. I slept on the floor. We meditated for four to eight hours a day.

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

In heaven we shall appear, not in armour, but in robes of glory. But here these are to be worn night and day; we must walk, work, and sleep in them, or else we are not true soldiers of Christ.

In the case of judges, I wouldn't be shocked to find out the number on television exceeds the number in real life — what is it about those black robes that makes us think ovaries?

No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.

Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand.

What finally prompted me to lose weight was a view of myself in a hairdresser's full-length mirror when I was seated and wearing one of the salon's floral print robes and realized that I looked like a slipcovered club chair.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

The matter of making christening robes for caterpillars, it is not a difficult one; the difficulty is to get a frisky caterpillar to keep still while one is putting on his christening robe. And then it is a problem to keep it on, after one does get it on. I do have much troubles with caterpillars crawling out of their christening robes after I do get them on.

Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.

When politicians don black robes and seize powers they do not have, they should be called out for what they are - usurpers and petty tyrants.

For hym was levere have at his beddes heed Twenty bookes, clad in blak or reed, Of Aristotle and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie.

When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.

He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket.

The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of the existence of an elite whose explicit commitment grants them implicit extraordinariness.

The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.

The other nice thing about the robes is that they keep you cool in the summer, and we were filming sometimes in Rome, where it was sometimes over 100 degrees.

There's nothing terrible in death; 'Tis but to cast our robes away, And sleep at night, without a breath To break repose till dawn of day.

When I get married,' said Fred, tugging at the collar of his own robes. 'I won't be bothering with any of this nonsense. You can all wear what you like and I'll put a full body-bind curse on mum until it's over.

Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.

and then he could not see her come into a room without a sense of the flowing of robes, of the flowering of blossoms, of the purple waves of the sea, of all things that are lovely and mutable on the surface but still and passionate in their heart.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story.

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties.

I travel with my own long silk robe. At the hotel, you just never know if the robes have been washed after they've been worn by other people.

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.

Sirius — it’s me . . . it’s Peter . . . your friend . . . you wouldn’t . . .” Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. “There’s enough filth on my robes without you touching them,” said Black.

Sow seed--but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth--let no imposter heap; Weave robes--let not the idle wear; Forge arms--in your defence to bear.

To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.

It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism.

You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper!

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.

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

Remember what I’ve told you. Looks can often deceive you. A poor man can don the robes of a prince and a prince can be shoeless in the street. We judge people by what their actions are, not by the clothes they wear. (Eleni)

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?

Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego.