Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the…

— Honore de Balzac

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

— Florence King

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

— Saul Bellow

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

— Anne Spencer

Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors where he…

— Fulton J. Sheen

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

— Timothy Leary

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

— Ralph Nader

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

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

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

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

— Mark Twain

But the power of God cannot be so determined and measured, for it is uncircumscribed and immeasurable, beyond and above all that is or…

— Martin Luther

The power of God is present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf.

— Martin Luther

As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we…

— Martin Luther