toga quotes

   Idealism isthe noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
Quoted in his NewYork Herald Tribune obituary, 24 Nov1963.

   If the cardinal points of costume are Robes,Tato, Rig and Scunge, where are shorts in this compass? Theyare the never Robes as other bareleg outfits have been: the toga, the kilt, the lava-lava, the Mahatma's cotton dhoti; archbishops and field marshals at their ceremonies never wear shorts. The very word means underpants in North America.

-Murray, Les(lie Allan)
  Selected Poems,'The Dream of  Wearing Shorts Forever'.

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