
“The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.”
Source: Poetry as Insurgent Art
“The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man.”
Letter to his father, Benjamin Eakins (1867), quoted in Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins: His Life and Work (1933).
Howard Stern on Piers Morgan Tonight, CNN (January 18, 2011)
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
More Maxims of Mark (1927) edited by Merle Johnson
Variant: Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.