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All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Attired to please herself: no gems of any kind She wore, nor aught of borrowed gloss in Nature's stead; ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2766<![CDATA[So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2767<![CDATA[O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns, And heightens ease ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2768<![CDATA[Her polish'd limbs, Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire; Beyond the pomp of dress; for Loveliness ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2769<![CDATA[Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2770<![CDATA[She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,-- The truest mirror that an honest wife ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2771<![CDATA[How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore That painted coat, which Joseph never wore! He shows, on holidays, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2772<![CDATA[Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt, And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2773<![CDATA[Dress does not give knowledge. [Sp., La ropa no da ciencia.] ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2774<![CDATA[He will come to her in yellow stockings, and 'tis a color she abhors, and cross-gartered, a fashion she detests; ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2762<![CDATA[Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblem right meet of decency does yield. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2763<![CDATA[Now old Tredgortha's dead and gone, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear an old grey ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2764<![CDATA[She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2765<![CDATA[After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2741<![CDATA[Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2742<![CDATA[Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast, Still to be powder'd, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2743<![CDATA[Apes are apes though clothed in scarlet. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2744<![CDATA[Each Bond-street buck conceits, unhappy elf; He shows his clothes! alas! he shows himself. O that they knew, these ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2745<![CDATA[Neat, not gaudy. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2746<![CDATA[Dwellers in huts and in marble halls-- From Shepherdess up to Queen-- Cared little for bonnets, and less for ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2747<![CDATA[Not caring, so that sumpter-horse, the back Be hung with gaudy trappings, in what course Yea, rags most beggarly, ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2748<![CDATA[Let thy attyre bee comely, but not costly. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2749<![CDATA[In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2750<![CDATA[Be pain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me! and be quiet. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2751<![CDATA[Old Rose is dead, that good old man, We ne'er shall see him more; He used to wear an ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2752<![CDATA[When this old cap was new 'Tis since two hundred years. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2753<![CDATA[He was a wight of high renowne, And thosne but of a low degree; Itt's pride that putts the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2754<![CDATA[My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdues (what will not time ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2755<![CDATA[Fare you well, my lord, and believe this of me: there can be no kernel in this light nut; the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2756<![CDATA[(Cloten:) Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes? (Guiderius:) No, nor thy tailor, rascal, Who ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2757<![CDATA[Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy, For the apparel ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2758<![CDATA[See where she comes, apparelled like the spring, Graces her subjects, and her thoughts the king Of every virtue ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2759<![CDATA[So tedious is this day As is the night before some festival To an impatient child that hath new ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2760<![CDATA[And now, my honey love, Will we return unto thy father's house And revel it as bravely as the ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2761<![CDATA[A sweet disorder in the dresse Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2737<![CDATA[A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2738<![CDATA[It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2739<![CDATA[A vest as admired Voltiger had on, Which from this Island's foes his grandsire won, Whose artful colour pass'd ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2740<![CDATA[Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2719<![CDATA[His locked, lettered, braw brass collar, Shewed him the gentleman and scholar. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2720<![CDATA[And said to myself, as I lit my cigar, "Supposing a man had the wealth of the Czar Of ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2721<![CDATA[Dresses for breakfasts, and dinners, and balls. Dresses to sit in, and stand in, and walk in; Dresses to ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2722<![CDATA[But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2723<![CDATA[Miss Flora McFlimsey of Madison Square, Has made three separate journeys to Paris, And her father assures me each ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2724<![CDATA[Around his form his loose long robe was thrown, And wrapt a breast bestowed on heaven alone. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2725<![CDATA[Dress drains our cellar dry, And keeps our larder lean; puts out our fires And introduces hunger, frost, and ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2726<![CDATA[If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2727<![CDATA[When his wife asked him to change clothes to meet the German Ambassador: "If they want to see me, here ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2728<![CDATA[Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best. ]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2729<![CDATA[He that is proud of the rustling of his silks, like a madman, laughs at the ratling of his fetters. ...]]>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2730