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  • Men call women faithless, changeable, and though they say it in jealousy of their own ever-threatened sexual honor, there is some truth in it. We can change our life, our being; no matter what our will is, we are changed. As the moon changes yet is one, so we are virgin, wife, mother, grandmother. For all their restlessness, men are who they are; once they put on the man's toga they will not change again; so they make a virtue of that rigidity and resist whatever might soften it and set them free.

    Mother   Men   Moon  
    "Lavinia". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 2008.
  • I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

  • Dakota's head was stuck in his toga. He staggered around olike a Kool-Aid-stained ghost. "Um," Percy said, "should I wear my bed sheets?

    Bed   Togas   Ghost  
  • Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood.

    Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
  • Immorality, perversion, infidelity, cannibalism, etc., are unassailable by church and civic league if you dress them up in the togas and talliths of the Good Book.

    Bible   Book   League  
    Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet
  • Goering was known to wear togas, fur coats and faux-medieval hunting outfits.

    Hunting   Fur   Togas  
  • Nobody remembers who was the richest toga salesman in Rome.

    Rome   Togas   Remember  
  • It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

    Men   Sweat   Togas  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • A perfect example of the new republic's urge to drape itself with the togas of classical respectability.

    Perfect   Example   Togas  
  • Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

    Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov 1963.
  • Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much sense as forcing modern residents of England to wear laurels and togas.

    Latin   Writing   Editing  
    Steven Pinker (1994). “The Language Instinct”, William Morrow & Company
  • Behold them, conquerors of the world, the toga-clad race of Romans!

    Race   Togas   World  
    "Divus Augustus". Book by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus translated by Robert Graves, 1957.
  • Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.

    Yield   Togas   Arms  
    Cicero, Marcus Tullius Cicero (2006). “De Officiis Or on Duties on Obligations”, p.60, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.

    Party   School   College  
    "Tribeca Interview: Abigail Breslin and Alessandro Nivola in Janie Jones : Rock God Meets Rock Child". Interview with Cynthia Ellis, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 06, 2011.
  • You follow words of the toga (language of the cultivated class). [Lat., Verba togae sequeris.]

    Class   Togas   Speech  
  • The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

    Frank Lloyd Wright (1987). “Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture”
  • It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

    Men   Sweat   Togas  
  • In the center stood a marble alter, where a kid in a toga was doing some sort of ritual in front of a massive golden statue of the big dude himself:Jupiter the sky god, dressed in a silk XXXL purple toga, holding a lightning bolt. "It doesn't look like that," Percy muttered. "What?" Hazel asked. "The master bolt," Percy said. "What are you talking about?" "I-" Percy frowned. For a second, he'd thought he remembered something. Now it was gone. "Nothing, I guess.

    Kids   Talking   Sky  
  • It's more than just a dress; it's a spirit. The wrap dress was an interesting cultural phenomenon, and one that has lasted 30 years. What is so special about it is that it's actually a very traditional form of clothing. It's like a toga, it's like a kimono, without buttons, without a zipper. What made my wrap dresses different is that they were made out of jersey and they sculpted the body.

  • Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.

    Peace   War   Yield  
  • Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?

    Twists   Togas  
    Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”
  • The wrap dress is the most traditional form of dressing: It's like a robe, it's like a kimono, it's like a toga. It doesn't have buttons or zippers. What made it different was that it was jersey; therefore, it was close to the body and it was a print.

    "Diane von Furstenberg On Wrap Dresses And The Joys Of Aging Gracefully". Interview with Amanda Christine Miller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.
  • The culture of Rome just doesn't match the culture of Yoga, not as far as I can see. In fact, I've decided that Rome and Yoga don't have anything in common at all. Except for the way they both kind of remind you of the word toga.

    Yoga   Rome   Way  
    Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.58, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • All forms of sexual loving become acceptable if the lovers wear togas or wolfskins.

    Sex   Togas   Lovers  
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