Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.
Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.
[Autobiographies] are all the same - it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy.
I will never understand children. I never pretended to. I meet mothers all the time who make resolutions to themselves. 'I'm going to. . . go out of my way to show them I am interested in them and what they do. I am going to understand my children. ' These women end up making rag rugs, using blunt scissors.
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty.
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. His face had on it some of the sadness of the ages. As he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable.
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.
Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.
Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustion--the oily rags of the head and heart.
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 it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.
One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.
Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain!
Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
I dress for the occasion. I like Tom Ford for more formal, especially his suits, and I wear a lot of Under Armour for my athletic gear. I also love Rag & Bone.
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London
