Aw! I’ll get ’ee rags and some turpletine.

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…

— Charles Darwin

“Does anybody look better in rags than me?”

— Anne Rice

The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who…

— Michelle Malkin

I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words…

— Julia Margaret Cameron

A man will remain a rag-picker as long as he has only the vision of a rag-picker.

— Orison Swett Marden

I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung…

— Joe Frazier

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

— Nikki Haley

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen.

— Charles Dickens

“Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God…

— T. William Watts

Let me see you do the 'rag time dance'... Turn left and do the 'Cake walk prance'... Turn the other way and do the…

— Scott Joplin

The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the…

— Henry Miller

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used…

— Casey Stengel

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness.

— Philip Massinger

The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone -…

— Robert Reich

“Memories aren't rags that come clean with enough ringing.”

— Dean Koontz