Garb Quotes

30 quotes by 26 authors

Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar… — Nikola Tesla
Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace. — John Milton
Michelle Alexander's brave and bold new book paints a haunting picture in which dreary felon garb, post-prison joblessness, and loss of voting rights now do… — Lani Guinier
Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would… — John of Salisbury
There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed. — Livy
Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility. — Adam Clarke
Language is the dress of thought; and as the noblest mien or most graceful action would be degraded and obscured by a garb appropriated to… — Samuel Johnson
Yesterday NPR fired me for telling the truth. The truth is that I worry when I am getting on an airplane and see people dressed… — Juan Williams
A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long… — Isak Dinesen
Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes,… — P. Chidambaram
To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor. — Albert Einstein
Protestant Christianity, whether in its liberal or conservative garb, finds itself waking up each morning in bed with a deteriorating modern culture, between sheets with… — Thomas Oden
Virtue, though clothed in a beggar's garb, commands respect. — Friedrich Schiller
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked… — Herman Melville
Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God is attained not… — Guru Gobind Singh
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily… — Mahatma Gandhi
The garb of religion is the best cloak for power. — William Hazlitt
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin. — Josh Billings
Vice deceives us when dressed in the garb of virtue. — Juvenal
Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion. — Hosea Ballou

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