The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
All-devouring time, envious age, Nought can escape you, and by slow degrees, Worn by your teeth, all things will lingering die.
I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.
Fashion has to be worn; otherwise it doesn't exist.
It'd be nice to have a new name, to start with, one that's not all worn out from being called so much.
Without reflecting that this is the only moment in which you can study character," said the count; "on the steps of the scaffold death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.
Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.
I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.
Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.
Moon, worn thin to the width of a quill, In the dawn clouds flying, How good to go, light into light, and still Giving light, dying.
I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.
Albertans have always worn their passions on their sleeves.
Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.
Saying yes all the time won't make me Wonder Woman. It will make me a worn out woman.
There are clothes which keep rejuvenating themselves instead of getting worn out.
I recently went mad and spent 1,000 in one afternoon on bras and knickers. I love classy, lacy stuff that makes you feel dead sexy knowing you've got it on. I've never worn stockings and suspenders, though. But I could imagine they'd make you feel really sexy worn under something formal. I think I'll save that experience and wear them under my wedding dress.
We all have scars [. . . ] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.
What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.