Coat Quotes

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

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

Robert Benchley

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

Clarence Darrow

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Peter De Vries

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat.

Robert Browning

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

Benjamin Harrison

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.

Victor Hugo

My style is about making things last forever. When you're on a budget, it can be daunting to spend $300 on a pair of boots or a coat. But such basics are the building blocks from which your look is crafted.

Nina Garcia

In the scope of a happy life, a messy desk or an overstuffed coat closet is a trivial thing, yet I find - and I hear from other people that they agree - that getting rid of clutter gives a disproportionate boost to happiness.

Gretchen Rubin

Wear the old coat and buy the new book. (Austin Phelps)

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

Lexa Doig

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

Vinny Testaverde

These sprays, dusts, and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests, and homes - nonselective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the "good" and the "bad," to still the song of birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil - all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? They should not be called "insecticides," but "biocides."

Rachel Carson

Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint.

Haruki Murakami

I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and went out of the room.

Raymond Chandler

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.

Tracy Chapman

Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work.

Carl Sandburg

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

Charles de Gaulle

I want to warn young people who lend their ears to radicals and who play around with the music from Lusaka - they will end up inside the bear's fur coat, but they will no longer be able to live.

Pieter Willem Botha

I may cut my coat to follow fashion, sir, but not my conscience. (Kage Baker)

With each success the ability to change is reduced. My longtime friend and coach Grandmaster Yuri Dokhoian, aptly compared it to being dipped inbronze. Each victory added another coat.

Garry Kasparov

Thank goodness for all the things you are not! Thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

Dr. Seuss

There is a bird who by his coat,And by the hoarseness of his note,Might be supposed a crow.

William Cowper

Italian husbands, in order to buy their wives a fur coat, spend more than all their European collegues.

Indro Montanelli

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