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Garments Quotes - Page 2

A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.

Matthew Henry, Philip Henry (1855). “The miscellaneous works of the Rev. Matthew Henry: containing in addition to those heretofore published, numerous sermons and papers, now first printed from the original manuscripts. With forty sermons on what Christ is made to believers, by Philip Henry; funeral sermons for Mr. and Mrs. Henry, by the Rev. Matthew Henry; funeral sermons on Mr. Matthew Henry, by W. Tong, John Reynolds, and Dr. Williams”, p.203

A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.

William Shakespeare (1858). “Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and poems”, p.358

Love is the garment of knowledge.

Kenneth Rexroth (1975). “Communalism: From Its Origins to the Twentieth Century”, Peter Owen Limited

Nature is the living, visible garment of God.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1882). “Faust, the First Part: The Text, with English Notes, Essays, and Verse Translations by E. J. Turner ... and E. D. A. Morshead ...”

Borrowed garments never keep one warm.

James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.69

Notice this rent in my garment; I am at a loss to explain its presence! I am even more puzzled by the existence of the universe.

Jack Vance (2000). “Cugel the Clever: (previously titled The Eyes of the Overworld)”, p.235, Macmillan

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

Hill Harper (2009). “The Conversation: How Men and Women Can Build Loving, Trusting Relationships”, p.9, Penguin

Silence is the garment of light.

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1991). “The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands”, Houghton Mifflin

I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

Anne Ellis (1997). “Plain Anne Ellis: More about the Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.12, U of Nebraska Press