Rake Quotes

43 quotes by 35 authors

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. — Thomas B. Macaulay
Like most fans of 'So You Think You Can Dance,' I wouldn't know a pasodoble if it beat me with a rake. — Rob Sheffield
While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake. — Henny Youngman
Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor. — Emily Bronte
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky actually… — Diane Ackerman
You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned?… — Martin Buber
I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like… — Laurie Halse Anderson
Bedding her could be anything from tenderness to riot, but to take her when she was a bit the worse for drink was always a… — Diana Gabaldon
Some guys step on a rake in the dark, and get mad and go punch somebody. Others step on a rake in the dark and… — Spider Robinson
... you should not believe a thing only because you like to believe it. We call that 'Diax's Rake' ... — Neal Stephenson
I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of… — Jodi Picoult
I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as though… — Gaelen Foley
If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all. — Joe Hill
If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect chicken-dumpling stew. And you must… — Shel Silverstein
Many Hindi films that are Tamil remakes rake in huge moolah in Bollywood. — Mithun Chakraborty
Better have an old man to humor than a young rake to break your heart. — Proverb
We try a new drug, a new combination of drugs, and suddenly I fall into my life again like a vole picked up by a… — Jane Kenyon
A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him, and which one perchance may safely twitch and pull, but a perfectly… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
If the Elf on the Shelf doesn't rake leaves, wash the car, or do laundry, I don't want one. . . — Rick Sutter
Every good newspaper is muckraking to some degree. It's part of our job. Where there's muck, we ought to rake it. — James P Cannon

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