quotes about Aprons
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Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd.
-- Alexander Pope -
...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.
-- Eoin Colfer -
Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.
-- Johanna SpyriSource : J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.288, e-artnow
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Naughty John, Naughty John, does his work with his apron on. Cuts your throat and takes your bones, sells 'em off for a coupla stones.
-- Libba Bray -
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I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.
-- Lizzie BordenSource : Lizzie Borden, Albert Mason, Caleb Blodgett, Justin Dewey, Massachusetts. Superior Court (Bristol County) (1937). “Trial of Lizzie Borden”
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... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
-- Margaret Deland