Rags Quotes

171 quotes by 141 authors

We don't leave home without my daughter's doll La-La. She looks like a bit of a rag, but India is obsessed with her. — Georgina Chapman
The miracle is that some have stepped out of the rags of the Republic's definition to assume the great burden and glory of their humanity… — James A. Baldwin
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. — George Farquhar
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. — John Dryden
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it.… — Mark Twain
Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use… — Brian Tracy
Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second. — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table. — Homer
Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down… — Homer
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags. — Walter Scott
A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes. — Carl Sandburg
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of… — Thomas Jefferson
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]… — Charles Darwin
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches,… — Brian Tracy
A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where… — John Steinbeck
Fair play with others is primarily the practice of not blaming them for anything that is wrong with us. We tend to rub our guilty… — Eric Hoffer
I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years. — Steve Waugh
Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Weeds don't need planting in well-drained soil; they don't ask for fertilizer or bits of rag to scare away the birds. They come without invitation;… — Norman Nicholson
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Who Wrote These Rags Quotes

141 authors contributed a total of 171 Rags Quotes, led by these top contributors: