Rags Quotes

171 Rags quotes by 138 unique authors

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
Sorrows are the rags of old clothes and jackets that serve to cover, and then are taken off. That undressing, and the beautiful naked body… — Unknown Author
We Jews, thank God, have nothing to do with the East. . . . The Islamic soul must be broomed out of Eretz-Yisrael. . .… — Ze'ev Jabotinsky
In matters of dress we wish neither silk nor rags," President Hinckley said. "We seek for the clean look, call it a wholesome look, the… — Daniel H. Ludlow
Rhythm and sex go together and that's where I come from as far as the music goes. Rag Doll and Love In An Elevator are… — Joe Perry
When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed… — Charles Loring Brace
I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on… — Julia Margaret Cameron
To us, it might look like just a rag. But to the brave, embattled men of the fort, it was more than that. It was… — Jack Handey
Since you walked out on me I'm getting lovelier by the hour. I glow like a corpse in the dark. No one sees how round… — Unknown Author
I got a burlap sack, put a brick in the middle, and filled it with rags, corncobs, some Spanish moss, and sand. I hung that… — Joe Frazier
Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears… — William Shakespeare

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