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Quotes About Patched

Peel'd, patch'd, and piebald, linsey-woolsey brothers,Grave mummers! sleeveless some, and shirtless others.That once was Britain.
~ Alexander Pope
Your lucky your brains didn't escape right out of there before you got it patched up. Brains like to go their own way sometimes.
~ Diane Hammond
The sail was patched with flour sacks and, furled, it looked like the flag of permanent defeat.
~ Ernest Hemingway
They patched the bag again. The drilling went on.
~ Linda Sue Park
That which is mended is but patched and can never be whole again.
~ Andrew Solomon
Now, Watson, said he, we have picked up two clues this morning. One is the bicycle with the Palmer tyre, and we see what that has led to. The other is the bicycle with the patched Dunlop. Before we start to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is a kind of vanity to wear patched clothes, the baron added sagely. He likes other people to notice how godly he is.
~ Mary Balogh
You're all cut off and sewn up
~ Susan Howatch
As for clothing, [...] perhaps we are led oftener by the love of novelty, and a regard for the opinions of men, in procuring it, than by a true utility. [...] No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Under the new policy, any time the NSA discovers a major flaw in software, it must disclose the vulnerability to vendors and others so the flaw can be patched.
~ Kim Zetter
So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
~ Ed Bradley
Anything that's mended is but patched. Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin, and sin that amends is but patched with virtue
~ William Shakespeare
Life is a garment; when it is dirty, we must brush it; when it is ragged, it must be patched; but we keep it on as long as we can.
~ Honore de Balzac
She often told herself that story, easing herself into sleep, drifting off as she patched together the ghostly memory of someone in whose real existence she hardly believed any more.
~ Paula Fox