Buttons Quote by Bill Bryson

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

— Martha Stewart

I have a weakness for buttons. I'm always collecting ornate and nicely decorated ones.

— Rila Fukushima

“Was it boredom or sadism that made the shirt service people do up every single button?”

— Ian McEwan

“For outdoors, he wears a mantle fastened at the shoulder with a clasp or chain; although buttons are sometimes used for decoration, the buttonhole…

— Joseph Gies

“If a man had a little button sewn on the inner pocket of his coat 'on principle' his otherwise unimportant and quite serviceable action…

— Søren Kierkegaard

Belly buttons were a big battle of mine. Down at the syndicate, they would clip them out with a razor blade. I began putting…

— Mort Walker

“On a shirt, every button has its own button-hole. Fix a button elsewhere and your dressing goes crazy and nasty! On earth, everyone has…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other mechanical…

— Tom Robbins

“Simplicity does not mean want or poverty. It does not mean the absence of any decor, or absolute nudity. It only means that the…

— Giles Colborne

The most useless are those who never change through the years.

— James M. Barrie

“The zipper displaces the button, and a man lacks that much time to think while dressing at dawn...”

— Ray Bradbury