For men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth. — James Russell Lowell 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
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you. — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity. — Paul Ludwig Landsberg 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
Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King 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
The story of the cursing of the fig tree is important for us today, for as the Jews of Jesus' time were… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here… — Henry Austin Dobson 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
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
A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is… — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
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
Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
This is a woman [Hillary Clinton] who for many of her 52 years never cared a fig about her appearance, but in… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous… — Robert Frost 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
Did you get so caught up in the preoccupancy of a relationship that you lost who you were or were busy in… — Paula White Copy Share Image
I think that if there were a God, there would be less evil on this earth. I believe that if evil exists… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the… — Robert Loveman Copy Share Image
Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Brambles, in particular, protect and nourish young fruit trees, and on farms bramble clumps (blackberry or one of its related cultivars) can… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“The Ripe Fig Now that You live here in my chest, anywhere we sit is a mountaintop. And those other images, which… — Rumi 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
“Quoyle remembered purple-brown seckle pears the size and shape of figs, his father taking the meat off with pecking bites, the smell… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls… — Lucian Copy Share Image
The Ripe FigNow that You live here in my chest,anywhere we sit is a mountaintop.And those other images,which have enchanted peoplelike porcelain… — Rumi Copy Share Image
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