Sumptuary Laws Quotes

#1. Fine dressing could not be suppressed despite ever-renewed sumptuary laws which tried especially and repeatedly to outlaw the pointed shoes.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#2. Sumptuary laws, as they were known, laid down precisely, if preposterously, who could wear what.

Bill Bryson

#3. I'm living in the moment. I just try to move each of the stories, scripts and projects that I work on forward. And when they're ready and the people are ready to make them, we'll do that.

David Heyman

#4. The challenge of every team is to build a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another because the question is usually not how well each person performs, but how well they work together.

Vince Lombardi

#5. I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

David Bowie

#6. pastors need themselves to have been mastered by the unconditional grace of God. From them the vestiges of a self-defensive pharisaism and conditionalism need to be torn. Like the Savior they need to handle bruised reeds without breaking them and dimly burning wicks without quenching them.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#7. Life in us is like the water in a river.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

Roald Dahl

#9. Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

Sarah Jessica Parker