Fig Leaf Quotes

#1. National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

Ralph Nader

#2. The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.

Mark Twain

#3. I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

Saul Bellow

#4. The fig leaf garments of good works will never do! Faith in the blood of Christ is the only righteousness we can claim.

Ervin N. Hershberger

#5. The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.

Freda Adler

#6. The Psalmist believed in a personal God, and knew nothing of that modern pantheism which is nothing more than atheism wearing a fig leaf.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#7. Some people need a fig-leaf on their mouths.

Martin Luther

#8. Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.

John Eldredge

#9. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Florence King

#10. Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

Anne Spencer

#11. If Eve went door to door with her apple, not a soul in the Artemisia wouldn't have grabbed it, planted a kiss on old Mama Fig Leaf, and had that shiny red temptation turned into the applejack of good and evil within an hour.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. In the Garden of Eden, Eve wore a fig leaf, not to cover her moist parts, but to draw Adam's gaze to what lay hidden in the undergrowth. Extending the metaphor, the snake symbolizes Adam's tongue, the apple the rosy, blood-engorged bundle of nerve endings pulsing within Eve's clitoris.

Chloe Thurlow

#13. I and others like me believe Timerman was chosen by President Kirshner, first as Argentina's U.N. ambassador and then as foreign minister, among other reasons because he does not hide his Jewishness and his relations with the Jewish community and, therefore, can be a 'fig leaf' for her policy.

Pepe Eliaschev

#14. Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

Timothy Leary

#15. A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

Honore De Balzac

#16. Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.

Bethany McLean

#17. People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

Calvin Trillin

#18. God is on everyone's side ... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

Jean Anouilh

#19. Even things in a book-case change if they are alive; we find ourselves wanting to meet them again; we find them altered

Virginia Woolf

#20. This is my experience of Oprah Winfrey - she makes decisions as frequently as she can to contribute with consciousness, with awareness, with love. I know - this is the source of her joy, her vitality, her unending creativity and her connection to people.

Gary Zukav

#21. A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how things are done, how things are done rightly, done well.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#22. What a treasure is hidden in two small words: 'thank you!'

Pope Benedict XVI

#23. Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways.

Jeff Ryan

#24. There is a time when even justice brings harm.

Sophocles