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
Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity. — Paul Ludwig Landsberg 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
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise. — John Eldredge 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
“Vile Father’s brown nipples, on the ends of his pendulous man-cans, were like dried figs.” — Lev Grossman 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
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
“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
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
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
When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
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
I am a sick man...I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. I think my liver hurts. However, i don't know a… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful… — Kate Douglas Wiggin 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 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
This (environmental treaty) process has nothing to do with the weather. It has nothing to do with man's impact on the weather.… — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley Copy Share Image
The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables - piles of white and… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
There are too many coy books full of talking animals, whimsical children, and condescending adults. (Some of the most famous animals in… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White 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
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 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
“(And did I mention how in summer the streets of Smyrna were lined with baskets of rose petals? And how everyone in… — Jeffrey Eugenides 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
“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
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
