2.
Speak, what trade art thou?
Why, sir, a carpenter.
Where is thy leather apron and thy rule?
What does thou with thy best apparel on?
William Shakespeare
3.
If God had meant men to have children, he would have given them a PVC apron.
Victoria Wood
4.
Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.
Johanna Spyri
6.
Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
Mahatma Gandhi
7.
...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.
Eoin Colfer
8.
... safety that depends on an apron-string is very unsafe!
Margaret Deland
9.
Ivy's COOK THE STEAK, DON'T STAKE THE COOK apron.
Kim Harrison
10.
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very good and I had lost it and would never remember it again.
Raymond Chandler
11.
Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.
Plutarch