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fig leaf

«The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes.»
«There is always some fig leaf being used.»
Author: Gary Hart (Senator) | Keywords: fig, fig leaf
«The statue that advertises its modesty with a fig leaf really brings its modesty under suspicion»
«The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf»

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