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“Women overrate the influence of fine dress and the latest fashions upon gentlemen; and certain it is that the very expensiveness of such attire frightens the beholder from all ideas of matrimony.”
Source : "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 115), 1886.
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“Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.”
Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.216, U of Nebraska Press
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“So in the Libyan fable it is told That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft: With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.”
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“It is claimed that the United States gets the cleanest and purest tea in the market, and certainly it is too good to warrant the nervous apprehension which strains and dilutes it into nothingness. The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we do. They like to see a few leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.”
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“Fashion isn't me, even though I work in it. It's just materialistic stuff.”
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“Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, "Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?”
Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.
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“Someone once defined humor as a way to keep from killing yourself. I keep my sense of humor and I stay alive.”
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“During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ***** followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“I asked these Indians: "Do men ever make Chicha?" My question was met with gales of laughter. The women howled. Bent over in hilarity, one replied, "Men can't brew. Chicha made by men would only make gas in the belly. You are a funny man! Beer is women's work."”
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“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.”
