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  • Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven

    John Irving (2012). “The Hotel New Hampshire”, p.488, Random House
  • 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?

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

    Heart   Men   Clothes  
    1833-4 Sartor Resartus, bk.3, ch.6.
  • 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.

    P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books
  • Old clothes do not make a tortured artist.

    Liner notes to "Searching For the Young Soul Rebels" album, 1980.
  • Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

    Liars   Lying   Lakes  
  • 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.

    Hunting   Hair   Clothes  
  • 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.

    Children   Kids   Names  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Maude Meagher (1931). “Fantastic Traveller”
  • People seldom notice old clothes if you wear a big smile.

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

  • 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.

    Beautiful   Grief   Taken  
  • People's lives change. To keep all your old friends is like keeping all your old clothes -- pretty soon your closet is so jammed and everything so crushed you can't find anything to wear. Help these friends when they need you; bless the years and happy times when you meant a lot to each other, but try not to have the guilts if new people mean more to you now.

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

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • 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.

    Cute   Sorry   Jealous  
  • Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.24, Graphic Arts Books
  • ... old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life.

    Dorothy Gilman (2007). “Kaleidoscope”, p.96, Ballantine Books
  • 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.

    George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.1833, Delphi Classics
  • Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

    Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.69, Library of Alexandria
  • 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.'

    1987 Chatterton, ch.5.
  • 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   Fire   Talking  
    Kate Braverman (1998). “Small Craft Warnings: Stories”
  • 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.

    Flower   Book   Clothes  
    William Carlos Williams (1938). “The complete collected poems of William Carlos Williams, 1906-1938”, Norfolk, Conn.
  • 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.

    Garden   Hands   Clothes  
    Texas Bix Bender (1999). “Don't Throw in the Trowel”, Gramercy Books
  • I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

    Change   Truth   Clothes  
    1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.
  • Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

    Clothes   Coats   Flesh  
    Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.211, Princeton University Press
  • 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.

  • Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.

    E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.448, Delphi Classics
  • [Sometimes I] put on a ski mask and dress in old clothes, go out on the streets and beg for quarters.

    Sports Illustrated, 1988.
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