Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.

Sir: This point of observation commands an area nearly 50 miles in diameter. The city, with its girdle of encampments, presents a superb scene.…

— Thaddeus S. C. Lowe

A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips…

— Ogden Nash

I loved the idea of doing something that has this misconception about what stewardesses were. And, I also love the idea that these girls…

— Christina Ricci

Our conception of 1950s underwear is a lovely vintage aesthetic, but actually, wearing stockings with no elastic and a girdle was heavy duty.

— Romola Garai

Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I…

— Cynthia Heimel

Education is fundamental. And I know some aren't blessed to be afforded the luxury, 'cause as sad as it is in 2016, it is…

— Eva Marcille

I remember thinking that a girdle was barbaric, and that never in a million years would I treat myself like a sleeping bag being…

— Susan Orlean

All keyes hang not on one girdle.

— George Herbert

And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby…

— Oscar Wilde

It's not just enough to swing at the ball. You've got to loosen your girdle and really let the ball have it.

— Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, Presidents wore hats, ladies wore girdles. We came straight out of…

— Jerry Lewis

Men do not avail themselves of the riches of God's grace. They love to nurse their cares, and seem as uneasy without some fret…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Willpower is breath and heartbeat of life; Life blooms in the girdle of taut willpower.

— Praveen Kumar

The hand that holds the seven stars is as loving as the hand that was laid in blessing upon the little children; the face…

— Alexander MacLaren

Temperance is reason's girdle and passion's bridle, the strength of the soul and the foundation of virtue.

— Jeremy Taylor