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I saw a man clothed with rags ... a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. — John Bunyan

My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story. — Jonathan Rhys Meyers

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back. — John L. Lewis

I was the epitome of rags to riches. — Jason Mitchell

Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is
a sort of spontaneous combustion
the oily rags of the head and heart. — Stanley Elkin

Of course, there are many rich men in the empire, but their money is buried, and they dress in rags and counterfeit poverty. — Mark Twain

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism. — Charles A. Reich

When is truth pleasing? It is only when we clothe it's nakedness with rags of imagination, or sweeten it with fiction, that it can please. — H. Rider Haggard

She had thrown away twenty years of her life like a handful of old rags, but the wind had blown them back again, and dressed her in the old uniform. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine ... — Celia Rees

Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles. — Alexander Pope

Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of. — Dolly Parton

The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star. — Marin Ireland

The Greek knows how to live with his rags: they don't utterly degrade and befoul him as in other countries I have visited. — Henry Miller

Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness. — Philip Massinger

Our righteousness" - never mind our sins! - "is like filthy rags" (Isa. 64:6 NKJV; — Michael S. Horton

Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table. — Homer

My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy. — Diana Ross

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. — Herman Melville

Our sweet illusions are half of them conscious illusions, like effects of colour that we know to be made up of tinsel, broken glass and rags. — George Eliot

God walks 'round in muddy boots, sometimes rags and that's the truth. You can't always tell but sometimes you just know. " From Geodes — Carrie Newcomer

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections. — Criss Jami

Chocolate, something salty, and a box of hag rags gave — Debra Anastasia

Still, I think it grieves the heart of God when human beings created in His image treat other human beings like filthy rags. — Jonathan Kozol

She had arrived in dirty rags and had cooked up a striking outfit for herself, out of relief donations, — Tom Piazza

And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. — Mark Twain

And all our righteousnesses are filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our inequities like the wind have taken us away — Miriam Toews

Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots rag'd: dire was the noise Of conflict. — John Milton

Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. Why was I ever born? — Christina Stead

Through your rags I see your vanity. — Socrates

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. — George Farquhar

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion. — Edmund Burke

People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws. — Thomas Pynchon

In the army of indigence the uniform is rags; they serve to distinguish the rank and file from the recruiting officers. — Ambrose Bierce

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school. — Annie Lennox

Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect. — Hedy Lamarr

A crap upbringing doesn't make someone weak, it makes them strong or how else could they get through it. — Suzanne Wrightt

Every man, when he first sees light, is commanded to be content with milk and rags. Such is our beginning, and yet kingdoms are all too small for us! — Seneca.

It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time. — Dan Stevens

Though Diogenes lived in a tub, there might be, for aught I know, as much pride under his rags, as in the fine-spun garments of the divine Plato. — Jonathan Swift

If a woman recognizes her power, she can present herself in rags and people will recognize her as queen. — Beth Kery

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

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise. — Mark Akenside

I have played nasty people, but not everyone has seen that stuff. Before 'The Office,' I mainly got cast as little toe-rags. — Martin Freeman

What strange times we live in, when good must disguise itself in the tawdry rags of evil! — Amin Maalouf

My lady, for your virtue and goodness, God would receive you in rags. — Alison Weir

The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust; rags to rags; fear to fear. — V.S. Naipaul

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. — Austin O'Malley

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

And nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old — Jack Kerouac

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment. — Joseph O'Connor

Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. — John Dryden

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags. — Ray Bradbury

A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes. — Carl Sandburg

Memories aren't rags that come clean with enough ringing. — Dean Koontz

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 of the groundlings. — William Shakespeare

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king. — Garth Brooks

We tell rags-to-riches stories because we find something captivating in the idea of a lone hero battling overwhelming odds. — Malcolm Gladwell

The Lord of Rags and Tatters. — Megan Whalen Turner

Mix ingredients. Close bottle with a cork and fix cloth rags around the mouth. Soak rag in kerosene immediately before use. Light and enjoy! — Matt Kindt

Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. — Charles Dickens

We all are like filthy rags in the site of God; not one clean enough, good enough, righteous enough, to stand before a holy God. — Robin Bertram

A clown on a throne is still a clown. A king in rags is still a king. — C. JoyBell C.

Better the pride that resides as a citizen of the world than a pride that divides when a colorful rag is unfurled — Neil Peart

He had vented all his woes and now they might as well see the few rags that covered his body, after which they could carry him away. — Franz Kafka

When the soldier is hit by a cannon-ball, rags are as becoming as purple. — Henry David Thoreau

Monsieur, innocence is its own crown! Innocence has only to act to be noble! She is as august in rags as fleur de lys. — Victor Hugo

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling. — Jamie Wyeth

You have to keep taking the next necessary stitch, and the next one, and the next. Without stitches, you just have rags. And we are not rags. — Anne Lamott

There are many new sinners today, but there aren't any new sins, just the old ones clothed in different rags. — Billy Graham

I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. — John Steinbeck

A chill December morning dawned, with rags and tatters of mist hanging on the trees like poor people's washing. — Ken Follett

Adam had once told Gansey, Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done. — Maggie Stiefvater

In our rags of light, all dressed to kill. — Leonard Cohen

I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles. — Kangana Ranaut

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. — Angela Carter

The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr - smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile. — Henri Barbusse

The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas.
Soldiers tied rags on their feet.
Red footprints wrote on the snow ... — Carl Sandburg

Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it 36 years and I'm used to it. — Casey Stengel

Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags. — Walter Scott

With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. — Thomas Hood

A man could be in a throne and have no attachment at all; another one could be in rags and have many attachments. — Swami Vivekananda

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. — John Donne

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it. — Stelios Haji-Ioannou

Some death is as silent as the flight of a bird, some prey as unprotesting as a knot of rags. The — Sue Grafton

Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes. — Victor Hugo

Who's poorer, the one who begs for money or those who have not enough to give away? Or are they reflecting one another and the same nature? — Robin Sacredfire

I like the clothes, too. I should shop flea markets more often."
He laughed at that. "You'd look good in anything, even rags. — B. J. Daniels

Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain! — Sri Aurobindo

[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. — Deborah Kerr

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it. — Samuel Johnson

The oat is the Horatio Alger of cereals, which progressed, if not from rags to riches, at least from weed to health food. — Waverley Root