Garment Quotations
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Mahatma Gandhi
Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
Ambrose Bierce
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
Herodotus
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?
Michelangelo
There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.
Jean Giraudoux
A statesman... must wait until he hears the steps of God sounding through events, then leap up and grasp the hem of His garment.
Otto von Bismarck
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
Edna Ferber
The body is a sacred garment.
Martha Graham
No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation, for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.
Ellsworth Huntington
Garment Translations
garment in Dutch is gewaad, kledingstuk
garment in German is Gewand
garment in Italian is veste
garment in Latin is velamen, vestis
garment in Norwegian is plagg
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