Rags Quotes

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public.

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food.

In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories.

The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

Pre-treating is a really important step for stain removal. It's best to treat stains right away, so blot fresh stains with a paper towel or a white rag.

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.

Rub a half potato on your wart and wrap it in a damp cloth. Close your eyes and whirl three times and throw. Then bury rag and spud exactly where they fall.

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled

Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.

I am a Nobel Peace laureate and my business should be to try to bring stability, not to be a red rag to bulls.

The winter is made and you have to bear it, The winter web, the winter woven, wind and wind, For all the thoughts of summer that go with it In the mind, pupa of straw, moppet of rags.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

I am quite conscious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science....It is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw[s] & holes as sound parts.

So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time.

Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!

Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats!

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

Harry had the impression that even the barman was listening in. He was wiping the same glass with the filthy rag; it was becoming steadily dirtier.

We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with the rag that is called the flag.

In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine.

First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up.

Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.

Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of.

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life.

Who's poorer, the one who begs for money or those who have not enough to give away? Or are they reflecting one another and the same nature?

Emperor, king, general, duke, ” he whispered to himself. “These are just labels. Climb up the family tree of any of them high enough and you’ll find a commoner who dared to take a chance.

The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust rags to rags fear to fear.

As a child, my clothes were always tailored to be oversized, because I quickly outgrew them and then needed bigger ones. As an adult, I still don't cut my coat according to size