Any moment you're willing to give up your fig leaves, which you think are covering you, God will give you His righteousness,… — Johnny Hunt Copy Share Image
Well there are a lot of things I like to eat but at this time of year I'm finding I'm making fig… — Karen Walker 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
A field is the most just possession for men. For what nature requires it carefully bears: barley, oil, wine, figs, honey. Silver-plate… — Philemon 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
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
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
When the Jewish people, after nearly 2,000 years of exile, under relentless persecution, became a nation again on 14 May 1948 the… — Hal Lindsey 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
The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I love fruit. One of my earliest memories is climbing trees for figs, and I once got stuck in one when I… — Katie Melua 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
Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and...… — Marcus Aurelius 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
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
One of the delights beyond the grasp of youth is that of Not Going. Not to have an invitation for the dance,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Let the world slide, let the world go; A fig for care, and a fig for woe! If I can't pay, why… — John Heywood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the missiles of the… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
When I find someone I respect writing about an edgy, nervous wine that dithered in the glass, I cringe. When I hear… — Kingsley Amis 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
“Date rape is just plain moronic when you consider how slutty figs are” — Josh Stern Copy Share Image
If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do. — Xenophanes Copy Share Image
I am a geek in terms of, I love 'Close Encounters' and I love 'Star Wars,' but other things... 'Doctor Who,' I… — Nick Frost Copy Share Image
Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled.… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Vile Father’s brown nipples, on the ends of his pendulous man-cans, were like dried figs.” — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“I'm often in a situation that I have to prepare a pudding for surprise guests, only to find that the only thing… — Clarissa Dickson Wright Copy Share Image
Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity. — Paul Ludwig Landsberg Copy Share Image
For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
