Truth loves to go naked. [ Proverb ]
Need makes the naked queen spin. [ Proverb ]
Truth, or clothed or naked let it be. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
As good beg of a naked man as of a miser. [ Proverb ]
That hideous sight - a naked human heart. [ Young ]
No naked man is sought after to be rifled. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Chase brave employments with a naked sword
Throughout the world. [ Herbert ]
Where every one fleeces the sheep go naked. [ Proverb ]
Craft must have clothes, but truth loves to go naked. [ Proverb ]
It is madness to put on gloves when you are stark naked. [ Proverb ]
If every bird take back its own feathers, you will be naked. [ Proverb ]
Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age. [ Shelley ]
Naked glory is the true and honorable recompense of gallant actions. [ Le Sage ]
Death shuns the naked throat and proffered breast; he flies when called to be a welcome guest. [ Sir Charles Sedley ]
Excess in apparel is another costly folly. The very trimming of the vain world would clothe all the naked one. [ William Penn ]
Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it, who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds. [ William Shakespeare ]
Neither the naked hand nor the understanding, left to itself, can do much; the work is accomplished by instruments and helps, of which the need is not less for the understanding than the hand. [ Bacon ]
The generality of princes, if they were stripped of their purple and cast naked on the world, would immediately sink to the lowest rank of society, without a hope of emerging from their obscurity. [ Gibbon ]
Every man must think in his own way; for on his own pathway he always finds a truth, or a measure of truth, which is helpful to him in his life; only he must not follow his own bent without restraint; he must control himself; to follow mere naked instinct does not beseem a man. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The friendship of the world is like the leaves falling from their trees in autumn; while the sap of maintenance lasts, friends swarm in abundance; but in the winter of our need, they leave us naked. He is a happy man that hath a true friend at his need; but he is more truly happy that hath no need of a friend. [ Arthur Warwick ]
An inoffensive pleasantness is a good quality to improve friendship. It enlivens conversation, relieves melancholy, and conveys advice with better success than naked reprehension. This gilding the pill reconciles the palate to the prescription, without weakening the force of the ingredients, and he who can cure by recreation, and make pleasure the vehicle of health, is a doctor in good earnest. [ R. Hall ]
Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment placing its victim naked on a bed of briars and bristles, thinly covered with rose-leaves, adorning his brow with a crown of gold, which burns into his brain; teasing, and fretting, and riddling him through and through with incessant discharges of hot shot from a masked battery; laying bare the most sensitive and shrinking nerves of his mind, and then blandly touching them with ice, or smilingly pricking them with needles. [ E. P. Whipple ]