Quotations
Famous Quotations
Sometimes it is difficult to be motivated and inspired to write a review, a persuasive formless essay, an article of reflexive investigation, etc. Plus, it can be difficult to find the right words that will better describe your ideas. DedicatedWriters.com is your top destination, since it provides students with an updated database of more than 150.000 quotations and proverbs of famous inventors, sportsmen, philosophers, artists, celebrities, businessmen, and the authors who certainly enriched and strengthen the world. This is perfect to become inspired and write book reports, essays, movie reviews, research papers, etc.
Try out our free search option and stay tuned.
fig leaf
«[The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.»
«I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.»
Author: Saul Bellow
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
fig, fig leaf, leaf, Other side, price tag, tag, tags, tag on, The other side, turned
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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.»
«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»