Sumptuary Laws Quotes & Sayings

Fine dressing could not be suppressed despite ever-renewed sumptuary laws which tried especially and repeatedly to outlaw the pointed shoes. — Barbara W. Tuchman

A simple act of kindness can touch someone's mind, so in every interaction be loving and be kind. — Debasish Mridha

A scientist is never certain ... We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. — Richard P. Feynman

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience. — Ed Harris

Albert Einstein was an avid violinist. He believed that working with his hands in this way and playing music helped his thinking process as well. In — Robert Greene

The most radical, audacious thing to think is that there might be some point to working hard and thinking hard and reading hard and writing hard and trying to be of service — Mark Vonnegut

Sometimes shit happens even if you have a shit shield — Nelson DeMille

Beauty, if you do not open your doors, takes age from lack of use. — Ovid

The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he took more pleasure, aside possibly evasion of the sumptuary laws. Cicero liked to believe himself wealthy. He prided himself on his books. He needed no further reason to dislike Cleopatra: intelligent women who had better libraries than he did offended him on three counts. — Stacy Schiff

If there exist fortunate people, if from time to time the wild sun of joy soars towards foreign lands in a sweet whirling of ecstasy - then where are the words which might tell of this? And if in the world there exists a beauty for enchantment, then how might one describe it?
("The Poison Garden") — Valery Bryusov

The worship of the nation has been able to make men tolerate under its authority what they could never have tolerated from princes: a submission to rule, which, through sumptuary laws on food and drink, through conscription, through a cast-iron system of compulsory instruction for all on State ordered lines, and through a State examination at the gate of every profession, has almost killed the citizen's power to react upon that which controls him, and has almost destroyed that variety which is the mark of life. — Hilaire Belloc

When we despair of gaining inner transformation through human powers of will and determination, we are open to a wonderful new realization: inner righteousness is a gift from God to be graciously received. The needed change within us is God's work, not ours. The demand is for an inside job, and only God can work from the inside. We cannot attain or earn this righteousness of the kingdom of God; it is a grace that is given. — Richard J. Foster

I wear anything of culture, from the Earth or beyond. The whole planet is my shop. — Afrika Bambaataa

Come on, asshole," Paul said as he stepped onto the porch. "Come make me cry - I dare ya. — Kele Moon

Sumptuary laws, as they were known, laid down precisely, if preposterously, who could wear what. — Bill Bryson

Infancy is the realm conveyed to us in dreams which look backward to the past. Adolescence, more like a work of art, is a prospective symbol of personal synthesis and of the future of humankind. Like a work of art that sets us on the pathway to new discoveries, adolescence promotes new meanings by mobilizing energies that were initially invested in the past. — Louise J. Kaplan

Margaret Thatcher drove us like there was no tomorrow. But I think there is a genuine feeling now that this macho, workaholic, earn lots of money way of life has run its course. There has been a shift in attitude. People are looking for a more balanced approach. — Edwina Currie

Humanism is an overemphasis on human worth and ability, leading man to glorify himself instead of God ... While its historical forms may vary, humanism inevitably leads people away from God and spiritual concerns. It promotes the false idea that man is good and that he is superior to God. Secular Humanism of the twentieth century altogether rejects belief in God and worships man as God. The pride of humanism will not go unpunished. — David Fisher

Company is a burden to those at home in the solitude of their souls. — Erika Robuck