Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.
I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.
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.
National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.
A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.
A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales Would choose in peace to drink my coffee.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39. 37 inchessec.
I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve!
I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive. . . is money.
Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.
Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.
Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.
I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.
And never since harvests were ripened, Or laborers born, Have men gathered figs of the thistle, Or grapes of the thorn!
Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
