I eat Fig Newtons by the sleeve.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.

I am against marriage, and I don't give a fig for society.

A fig for your bill of fare; show me your bill of company.

National security is the fig leaf against freedom of information.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.

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.

Halfway measures, such as loincloths or fig leaves, remain more titillating than complete nudity.

The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

And never since harvests were ripened, / Or laborers born, / Have men gathered figs of the thistle, / Or grapes of the thorn!

Competition, free enterprise, and an open market were never meant to be symbolic fig leaves for corporate socialism and monopolistic capitalism.

There was an Old Person of Bray, Who sang through the whole of the day To his ducks and his pigs, whom he fed upon figs, That valuable Person of Bray.

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