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QUOTATIONS
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past are collected here, arranged alphabetically by author.
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The
only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
~Foe Ancis
Our
bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
~Frank Gillette Burgess
Fashion
is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
~Quentin Crisp
Think
with your whole body
~Taisen Deshimaru
Never
apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize
for the truth.
~Benjamin Disraeli
"Full
nakedness! All joyes are due to thee,
As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be,
To taste whole joyes."
~John Donne, Elegie XIX
"Beauty
when most unclothed is clothed best."
~Phineas Fletcher, English Poet, 1582-1650
Minorities
are the stars of the firmament; majorities, the darkness
in which they float.
~Martin H. Fischer
What
a man most enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies
of how she would look without them.
~Brendan Francis
And
the weaver said, "Speak to us of Clothes."
And he answered:
Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide
not the unbeautiful.
And though you seek in garments the freedom of privacy you
may find in them a harness and a chain.
Would that you could meet the sun and the wind with more
of your skin and less of your raiment,
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of
life is in the wind.
Some of you say, "It is the north wind who has woven
the clothes to wear."
But shame was his loom, and the softening of the sinews
was his thread.
And when his work was done he laughed in the forest.
Forget not that modesty is for a shield against the eye
of the unclean.
And when the unclean shall be no more, what were modesty
but a fetter and a fouling of the mind?
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare
feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
The
body never lies.
~Martha Graham
The
body is a sacred garment.
~Martha Graham
Some
day people will grow up and realize that the only thing
vile about human bodies is the small minds some people have
developed within them.
~Dick Hein
Prudence
keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
~Samuel Johnson
Until
you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden
it was.
~Margaret Mitchell
Man
is the sole animal whose nudity offends his own companions,
and the only one who, in his natural actions, withdraws
and hides himself from his own kind.
~Montaigne
The
girl with dark hair was coming towards them across the field.
With what seemed a single movement she tore off her clothes
and flung them disdainfully aside. Her body was white and
smooth, but it aroused no desire in him, indeed he barely
looked at it. What overwhelmed him in that instant was admiration
for the gesture with which she had thrown her clothes aside.
With its grace and carelessness it seemed to annihilate
a whole culture, a whole system of thought, as though Big
Brother and the Party and the Thought Police could all be
swept into nothingness by a single splendid movement of
the arm.
~ George Orwell 1984
Venus
favors the bold.
~Ovid
We
are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in
the end we become disguised to ourselves.
~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Perfection
is finally attained not when there is no longer anything
to add but when there is no longer anything to take away,
when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A
dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take
it off you.
~Françoise Sagan
It
is not because things are difficult that we do not dare,
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
~Seneca
What
a strange power there is in clothing.
~Isaac Bashevis Singer
If
one is forever cautious, can one remain a human being?
~Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
When
I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons,
belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper,
freer breath.
~August Strindberg
It
is an interesting question how far men would retain their
relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
~Henry David Thoreau
Clothes
make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
society.
~Mark Twain
Whenever
you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time
to pause and reflect.
~Mark Twain
The
finest clothing made is a person's skin, but, of course,
society demands something more than this.
~Mark Twain
If
anything is sacred, the human body is sacred.
~Walt Whitman
The
human body is the best picture of the human soul.
~Ludwig Wittgenstein
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