Coat Quotes

Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.

You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.

Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in womb?

I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Seppuku is Japanese for ritual suicide. I thought, What a cute name for a coat.

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

And the Russians certainly don't have it. If a woman shows up in a fur coat, I just assume she's a crook. And that's me, the nice American. The assumption that you can't make money honestly is a killer.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Peter was 2 years and 10 months old when we began to study him. He was afraid of a white rat, and this fear extended to a rabbit, a fur coat, a feather, cotton wool, etc., but not to wooden blocks and similar toys.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.

He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.