Robes Quotes

Messieurs, c'est les microbes qui auront le dernier mot." (Gentlemen, it is the microbes who will have the last word.)

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.

Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.

Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim

The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed.

We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.

The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself.