Best Clothings Sayings
494 Clothings quotes by 410 unique authors
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I suppose we acquire most of our feelings about our bodies too early, and in ways too complicated, to make them easy to account for.
— Charis Wilson
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Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have…
— Mark Twain
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How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?
— Katherine Mansfield
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This was life! Ah, how he loved it! Civilization held nothing like this in its narrow and circumscribed sphere, hemmed in by restrictions and conventionalities.…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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For a time Jack was angry; but when he had been without the jacket for a short while he began to realize that being half-clothed…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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By now I was utterly deprogrammed. I walked along naked usually, clothes being not only putrid but unnecessary. My skin had been baked a deep…
— Robyn Davidson
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The best dress for walking is nakedness. But our sad though fascinating world rarely offers the right and necessary combinations of weather and privacy, and…
— Colin Fletcher
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Now, nakedness is a delightful condition. And it keeps you very pleasantly cool - especially, I suppose, if you happen to be a man. But…
— Colin Fletcher
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By walking naked you gain far more than coolness. You feel an unexpected sense of freedom from restraint. An uplifting and almost delirious sense of…
— Colin Fletcher
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Freed from the pressure of haste, the tyranny of film, and now the restraint of clothes, I found myself looking more closely at what went…
— Colin Fletcher
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With a little inner pirouette of excitement I realised just how much there was to look forward to tomorrow. The thought of being all day…
— Lucy Irvine
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In the first weeks I had occasionally worn clothes in the morning before the sun began its ascent, but very soon I abandoned this habit,…
— Lucy Irvine
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Last night I had rinsed out my sari strip and briefs in the sea. I walked down naked to where they hung in the branches…
— Lucy Irvine
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Bare skin is the one and only right criterion for receiving water's gracious acceptance or any acceptance whatsoever from that element. But Pliny also seems…
— Janet Lembke
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Human beings to me are as much a part of nature as trees or birds, and the unclothed body expresses this belongingness directly and powerfully.
— Wynn Bullock
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I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked.
— Walt Whitman
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The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.
— Mark Twain
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The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality…
— Mark Twain
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The human body represents to me the same universal innocence, timelessness and purity of all seed pods, suggesting the mother as well as the child,…
— Ruth Bernhard
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To see you naked is to recall the Earth.
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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The Princess Borghese, Bonaparte's sister, who was no saint, sat to Canova as a reclining Venus, and being asked if she did not feel a…
— William Hazlitt
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Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful. And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy, you may…
— Khalil Gibran
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Beauty is not diminished by being shared.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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In nakedness I behold the majesty of the essential instead of the trappings of pretension.
— Unknown Author
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Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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