Best Old Clothes Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.”

Book:Kaleidoscope

Source: Kaleidoscope

“There is a special blessing in old clothes, and that aside from their comfort, for which especially they are to be cherished. They confer a kind of anonymity on one who wears them gladly; all their bright places rubbed to a uniform dullness, they achieve an appearance so nearly nondescript that only a close scrutiny could learn that ever they held shape at all.”

Kind Achieve Special Comfort Blessing Shapes Clothes Appearance Uniforms Scrutiny Anonymity Dullness Old Clothes

Book:Fantastic Traveller

Source: Fantastic Traveller

“Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.”

Artist Clothes Old Clothes Tortured Artists

Author:Kevin Rowland

“I think when you look at architectural photography it doesn't help to have piles of old clothes lying on the floor. Architectural photography sets up an artifice.”

Thinking Looks Helping Lying Photography Clothes Artifice Old Clothes Lying On The Floor

Author:Annabelle Selldorf

“There was a loneliness because kids my age had video games, tennis. They traveled. They had beautiful clothes. I was wearing my sisters' old clothes that were adjusted on me, because we didn't have money to buy clothes. So that really made me go deep inside on my heart, because the only things I could have with me were my heart and my brain.”

Heart Made Kids Age Beautiful Games Brain Loneliness My Heart Clothes Video Tennis My Sister Traveled Deep Inside Old Clothes Beautiful Clothes

Author:Riccardo Tisci

“Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.”

Lying Sea Clothes Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Delusion Liars Fly Fishing Angling Funny Fishing Old Clothes

Author:Don Marquis

“Rich kids gave us their old clothes. They were the best clothes we ever had. We were these very pure, naive, poor children. The rich kids called us a lot of names but it never bothered us because we didn't know what the words meant.”

Knows Children Kids Names Poor Rich Pure Clothes Naive Bothered Poor Children Rich Kids Old Clothes

Author:River Phoenix

“[Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.”

Sometimes Sports Streets Clothes Dresses Mask Quarters Mike Skis Old Clothes

Author:Mike Tyson

“Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.”

Fashion Clothes Enterprise Mistrust Transcendental Transcendentalism Deep Life New Clothes Room With A View Old Clothes Walden Pond

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven”

Heaven Clothes Sells Old Clothes

Book:The Hotel New Hampshire

Source: The Hotel New Hampshire

“Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile.”

Giving Littles Two Felt Hair Clothes Sorry Cute Friendly Jealous Lit Jason Two Days Messed Up Pipers Piper Mclean Old Clothes

Author:Rick Riordan

“A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.”

Habit Clothes Birthday Good Times Throwing Old Habits Throwing Away Old Clothes

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.”

“Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Giving Clothes Memorable Charitable Old Clothes

Book:Old Rose and Silver

Source: Old Rose and Silver

“I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.”

Two Faces Clothes Crosses Complaining Pounds Complaints Closets Explosions Old Clothes Halibut

Author:David Niven

“I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines”

Book Clothes Magazines Grandparent Old Clothes

Author:Christian Lacroix

“Like I'm dragging bundles of old clothes? I'm carrying artifacts that breathe fire. I'm talking about a language of smoke. These are three-dimensional creatures that can mate. I'd no more leave them go by the side of the trail than I would my child. I'll carry them until someone amputates my arms.”

Children Three Language Sides Talking Fire Arms Creatures Clothes Breathe Smoke My Children Mates Trails Bundles Artifacts Old Clothes

Book:Small Craft Warnings: Stories

Source: Small Craft Warnings: Stories

“Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief.”

Body Beautiful Grief Taken Sorrow Clothes Naked Sweetness Jackets Rags Undressing Old Clothes

Author:Rumi

“It's amazing what eliminating energy drains can do to our mood. Remember how good you felt when you finally went through your closet and cleaned out the old clothes that you were sure you'd wear again someday?”

Remember Energy Felt Can Do Clothes Encouragement Mood Someday Closets Drains Eliminating Old Clothes

Author:Cheryl Richardson

“Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.”

Men Heart Clothes Old Clothes

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The best way to garden is to put on a wide-brimmed straw hat and some old clothes. And with a hoe in one hand and a cold drink in the other, tell somebody else where to dig.”

Way Hands Cold Drink Clothes Garden Wide Best Way Hats Straws Hoe Old Clothes Great Garden Straw Hats

Book:Don't Throw in the Trowel

Source: Don't Throw in the Trowel

“No wreaths please - especially no hothouse flowers. Some common memento is better, something he prized and is known by: his old clothes - a few books perhaps.”

Book Common Known Flower Please Clothes Wreaths Memento Old Clothes

Book:The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938

Source: The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938

“And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'”

Body Social Creating Clothes Library Smell Chiefs Scent Soup Librarian Steam Old Clothes

Author:Peter Ackroyd

“We should teach our children to think no more of their bodies when dead than they do of their hair when cut off, or of their old clothes when they have done with them.”

Thinking Should Children Done Body Teach Cutting Hair Clothes Our Children Human Body Old Clothes

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)

“True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little longer if necessary; dispense with the new pair of gloves; mend the old dress: live on plainer food if need be; so that, under all circumstances, unless some unforeseen accident occurs, there will be a margin in favor of the income.”

Ifs Needs Littles Economy Circumstances Clothes Dresses Accidents Favors Income Pairs Exceed Margins Gloves Unforeseen Old Clothes

Book:Art of Money Getting

Source: Art of Money Getting