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“I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.”
Saul Bellow quotes (Canadian born American Novelist, 1915-2005)

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“Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.”
Florence King quotes

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“There is always some fig leaf being used.”
Gary Hart quotes (American Senator, b.1936)

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“The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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“The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf”
Mark Twain quotes (American Humorist, Writer and Lecturer. 1835-1910)

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“The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.”
Freda Adler quotes (US author, educator and theorist, b.1955)

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“And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons”
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“[The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.”
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“And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.”
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“I will surely consume them, saith the LORD: there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them.”
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“And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.”
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“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: / So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors.”
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“And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: / And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.”
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“Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is near: / So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors.”
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“FIB, n. A lie that has not cut its teeth. An habitual liar's nearest approach to truth: the perigee of his eccentric orbit. When David said: "All men are liars," Dave, Himself a liar, fibbed like any thief. Perhaps he thought to weaken disbelief By proof that even himself was not a slave To Truth; though I suspect the aged knave Had been of all her servitors the chief Had he but known a fig's reluctant leaf Is more than e'er she wore on land or wave. No, David served not Naked Truth when he Struck that sledge-hammer blow at all his race; Nor did he hit the nail upon the head: For reason shows that it could never be, And the facts contradict him to his face. Men are not liars all, for some are dead. --Bartle Quinker”
Ambrose Bierce quotes (American Writer, Journalist and Editor, 1842-1914) Book: Devil's Dictionary quotes

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