Figs Quotes

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.

Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve.