Clad Quotes

78 quotes by 68 authors

Nelson Mandela once remarked that he befriended his jailers, those grim, khaki-clad overseers of his decades of hard labor in a limestone quarry, by "exploiting… — Marc Ian Barasch
Women are such contrary creatures when it comes to sex. You parade around like scantily clad vixens but blush when you're caught staring at the… — Katie MacAlister
Once upon a time, the most successful Democratic leader of them all, FDR, looked south and said I see one third of a nation ill-housed,… — Zell Miller
The idea of seeing everybody clad the same is not really my cup of tea — Christian Lacroix
I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling plaster revealing the coarse masonry… — W G Sebald
In New Yorkâ€™s Times Square a white-clad girl clutches her purse and skirt as an uninhibited sailor plants his lips squarely on hers. — Alfred Eisenstaedt
Ask yourself always: am I harmoniously put together, am I appropriately clad for the deed at hand, and am I free of non-essentials? — Edna Woolman Chase
The river itself portrays humanity precisely, with its tortuous windings, its accumulation of driftwood, its unsuspected depths, and its crystalline shallows, singing in the Summer… — Myrtle Reed
Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are… — Mary Baker Eddy
She lifted up her hand and from the ring that she wore there issued a great light that illuminated her alone and left all else… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single… — Bram Stoker
The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense. — Henry David Thoreau
If you see anybody wail and complain, call him a slave, though he be clad in purple. — Epictetus
I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that… — Lloyd C. Douglas
...catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny,… — Will Self
We are spirits clad in veils; Man by man was never seen; All our deep communing fails To remove the shadowy screen. — Christopher Pearse Cranch
Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change… — Mark Twain
It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names. — James F. Cooper
We are spirits clad in veils. — Christopher Pearse Cranch
If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition. — John Kenneth Galbraith

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