Habiliments Quotes

#1. History shows that the human mind, fed by constant accessions of knowledge, periodically grows too large for its theoretical coverings, and bursts them asunder to appear in new habiliments, as the feeding and growing grub, at intervals, casts its too narrow skin and assumes another.

Charles Darwin

#2. Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

Michel De Montaigne

#3. The ravening wolves are amongst us, from our own membership, and they, more than any others, are clothed in sheep's clothing, because they wear the habiliments of the priesthood ... We should be careful of them.

J. Reuben Clark

#4. Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have.

William Shakespeare

#5. My brother-in-law had to give up his last job because of illness. His boss became sick of him.

Henny Youngman

#6. walking away from America.

Jamie McGuire

#7. There are a lot of people who are eager to assign blame. I think we're [USA] eager to try and find some solutions. One thing that would help would be comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

Josh Earnest

#8. I swear. Everyone here gets so worked up over the most minute details.
~Mayuri Kurotsuchi

Tite Kubo

#9. It's only too late when someone's in the ground. And even then, you can always find redemption.

S.E. Jakes

#10. Sometimes I go through a yoga phase or a spinning phase, but I try to vary my workouts so my body doesn't get used to any one thing.

Noureen DeWulf

#11. You want to put people in neat categories, make them monsters or angels, but it almost never works that way. You work in the gray and frankly that kinda sucks. The extremes are so much easier.

Harlan Coben

#12. Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please.

Radhe Maa

#13. Today, we have got more excuses from the government.

Tony Abbott

#14. Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.

Elise Andrew

#15. No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.

Sam Kean

#16. He deserves nothing. Nothing but our scorn. (Father) Then I am rich indeed from the abundance of that which you've shown me. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#17. When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better.

C.S. Lewis

#18. Those are greedy of praise prove that they are poor in merit.

Plutarch