Figs Quote by Anne Spencer Download Open image “Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.” — Anne Spencer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Figs Guilt Innocence Leafs Pins Regret
I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do… — Yann Martel 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
Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray. — Immanuel Kant 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 fruit uncelebratedly… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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 dolls from China,which have made men and women weepfor centuries, even those have changed now.What used to be pain is a lovely benchwhere we can rest under the roses.A left hand has become a right.A dark wall, a… — Rumi Copy Share
“We often hear, almost invariably, however, from superficial observers, that guilt can look like innocence. I believe it to be infinitely the truer axiom… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
The type of figleaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain… — Freda Adler Copy Share Image
Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of… — Anonymous 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 accountable for… — Eric D. Huntsman Copy Share Image
It is dangerous for a woman to defy the gods; To taunt them with the tongue's thin tip, Or strut in the weakness of… — Anne Spencer Copy Share Image
I proudly love being a Negro woman -- it's so involved and interesting. — Anne Spencer Copy Share Image
“He Said... Your garden at dusk Is the soul of love Blurred in its beauty And softly caressing; I, gently daring This sweetest confessing,… — Anne Spencer Copy Share Image
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard. — Anne Spencer Copy Share Image
Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . . — Anne Spencer 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 Jesus Christ. — 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 of sailors… — 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. How many would--" "Four." Hezekiah answered before Shebna finished, and the tutor's thick black eyebrows rose in surprise. "And suppose I had five figs. How many would we--" "Nine." "Have you done this before?" Hezekiah thought the question… — Lynn Austin Copy Share
I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful… — 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 of the… — 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 you bought for preserves. The next morning, birds rustled the fruit trees, and later when I twisted a ripe fig loose from its stem, I found it half eaten, the other side already rotting, or-like another I plucked… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share
Your constitution guarantees to every citizen, even the humblest, the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property. It promises to all, religious freedom, the right to all to worship God beneath their own vine and fig tree, according to the dictates of their conscience. It guarantees to all the citizens of the several states the right to become citizens of any… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share
