"Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths." — Martin Luther

More Fig Quotes

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• I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society. — Brigitte Bardot
• A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales… — Jonathan Swift
• Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its… — S. Parkes Cadman
• Poor Fred - he's actually working on a typo, and somebody ought to tell him. Twice in the New Testament… — Thom Hartmann
• The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets… — Lucian
• Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. — Florence King
• May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good… — George Washington
• Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. — Epictetus
• Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade… — Charles Dickens
• I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of… — George Washington
• I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve! — Brian Regan
• The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage. — Mark Lowry

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