Rags Quotes

171 quotes by 138 authors

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. — Mark Twain
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy. — Diana Ross
I don't at all want to resemble some of these young designers who ask hallucinating prices for rags that are so in fashion now, that… — Milla Jovovich
You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at a time when… — Sinead O'Connor
My tears is tatted, my rag in my pocket / Im just looking for love, I know somebody got it — Jay-Z
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole… — Emanuel Lasker
Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the… — Victor Hugo
I consider the positions of kings and rulers as that of dust motes. I observe treasures of gold and gems as so many bricks and… — Gautama Buddha
Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food. — Austin O'Malley
The old doctrine that God wanted man to do something for him, and that he kept a watchful eye upon all the children of men;… — Robert Green Ingersoll
My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the… — William Butler Yeats
Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in… — Austin O'Malley
As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in… — John Bunyan
A lean, loose-jointed Negro had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept. His clothes were rags; his feet peeped out of his shoes.… — William Christopher Handy
We are rag dolls made out of many ages and skins, changelings who have slept in wood nests, and hissed in the uncouth guise of… — Loren Eiseley
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment. — Joseph O'Connor
The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it… — Robert Fulton
It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke… — Rosario Dawson
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism. — Charles A. Reich
The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few… — Stanley Crouch

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