I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
The story of the cursing of the fig tree is important for us today, for as the Jews of Jesus' time were accountable for failing to bring forth fruit, so too are we accountable for the fruits we bring forth.
A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!
Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.
Most of what you encounter when you meet a man is a facade, an elaborate fig leaf, a brilliant disguise.
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen.
The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.
Puritans should wear fig leaves on their eyes.
Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet.
A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.
For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.
Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39. 37 inchessec.
God made a beauteous garden With lovely flowers strown, But one straight, narrow pathway That was not overgrown. And to this beauteous garden He brought mankind to live, And said "To you, my children, These lovely flowers I give. Prune ye my vines and fig trees, With care my flowers tend, But keep the pathway open Your home is at the end. " God's Garden
National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.
The language of salesmanship was no doubt born with the first fashions in fig leaves in the garden of Eden. A strange concept has grown around it: if something is to be sold, inaccuracy is not immoral. Hence the art of advertisement - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
