Clothes Quotes

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

Society, Influence, Naked

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama

Work, Nice, Live

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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Life, Before, Spring

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Mark Twain

Cannot, Himself, Written

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
Audrey Hepburn

Beauty, Woman, Her

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Working, Sense, Genius

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma Gandhi

Change, Live, Simple

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin

Fine, Eye, Blind

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Distrust, Enterprise, Requires

There isn't anybody that looks like me without clothes on.
Marilyn Monroe

Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Beware, Require

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David Thoreau

Yourself, Friends, Thoughts

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Far, Question

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Distrust, Enterprise, Requires

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Rather, Beware, Require

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby

Music, Time, Nothing

I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life.
Oprah Winfrey

Life, Saying, Remember

I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes.
Erma Bombeck

Society, Live, Through

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.
Dale Carnegie

Important, Woman, Her

There was a time in my life when I thought I had everything - millions of dollars, mansions, cars, nice clothes, beautiful women, and every other materialistic thing you can imagine. Now I struggle for peace.
Richard Pryor

Life, Peace, Time

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.
Charlie Chaplin

Time, Character, Person

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Night, Off, Throw

Sometimes I put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.
Mike Tyson

Old, Put, Sometimes

I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator.
Steven Wright

Girl, Wonderful, She

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher

Made, Manners, Improve

The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the grass with the splendor of lilies. How much more, then, will He care for us, who are made in His image? Our only concern is to obey the heavenly Father and leave the consequences to Him.
Charles Stanley

God, Care, Father

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.
John Oates

Same, Hair, Cake

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.
Benjamin Disraeli

Away, Himself, Gentleman

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.
William Penn

Knowledge, Ignorance, Humility

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Desiderius Erasmus

Money, Food, Books

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