quotes about Figs
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I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.
-- Edward LearSource : Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear (2004). “Utter Nonsense: Selected Poems of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear”, p.29, Lonely Scribe
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Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
-- Epictetus -
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Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
-- George F. Kennan -
Shape is a good part of the fig's delight.
-- Jane GrigsonSource : Jane Grigson (2007). “Jane Grigson's Fruit Book”, p.160, U of Nebraska Press
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A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.
-- Jonathan Swift -
Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.
-- Paul Ludwig Landsberg -
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National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.
-- Ralph Nader -
Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.
-- Ralph Nader -
Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.
-- Anne SpencerSource : Anne Spencer, “At The Carnival”
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Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.
-- Joe Hart