Fashion

(207 votes)   If one considers how much reason every person has for anxiety and timid self-concealment, and how three-quarters of his energy and goodwill can be paralyzed and made unfruitful by it, one has to be very grateful to fashion, insofar as it sets that three-quarters free and communicates self-confidence and mutual cheerful agreeableness to those who know they are subject to its law.

Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900, German Philosopher

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(173 votes)   Fashion is more powerful than any tyrant.

Latin Proverbs
Sayings of Latin Origin

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(109 votes)   Society is founded upon cloth.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(92 votes)   He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(92 votes)   The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

David Mamet
1947-, American Playwright

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(83 votes)   You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon
1834-1892, British Baptist Preacher

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(72 votes)   It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions.

Voltaire
1694-1778, French Historian, Writer

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(72 votes)   Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(66 votes)   Only the minute and the future are interesting in fashion -- it exists to be destroyed. If everybody did everything with respect, you'd go nowhere.

Karl Lagerfeld

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(65 votes)   Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(63 votes)   Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Henri B. Stendhal
1783-1842, French Writer

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(63 votes)   We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(58 votes)   I'd like to put on buckskins and a ponytail and go underwater with a reed, hiding from the Indians... To me, that's sexy!

Kevin Costner
1955-, American Actor, Director, Producer

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(54 votes)   It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

Yves Saint-Laurent
1936-, Algerian-Born French Fashion Designer

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(47 votes)   Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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