Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. - Albert Einstein
Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things. - Henry Ward Beecher
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen. - George Bernard Shaw
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing. - Stephanie Barron
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. - Lillian Hellman
Of course, fashions come and go but metrosexuality isn’t a fashion – it’s an epoch. It represents a fundamental shift in what men are allowed to be and to want. Men are now permitted to be ‘passive’ – inviting our gaze. - Mark Simpson