When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of… — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
In all lands, sailors form a race apart. They profess a congenital contempt for landlubbers. As for the tradesman, he understands nothing… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn! — Phoebe Cary Copy Share Image
Shebna scraped the tablet clean and began drawing circles in the soft clay. "Suppose you had six figs and you ate two.… — Lynn Austin Copy Share Image
I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one… — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
First, I emptied the closets of your clothes, threw out the bowl of fruit, bruised from your touch, left empty the jars… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of… — Homer Copy Share Image
Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a… — Franklin P. Adams Copy Share Image
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage. — Mark Lowry Copy Share Image
The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Juilin," she asked hesitantly, "what were you going to do with the salt and cooking oil? Not exactly," she added more quickly.… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
Sex divorced from love, instead of raising man by taking him away from himself, drags him down to the hall of mirrors… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
