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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
The Lord of Rags and Tatters. -- Megan Whalen Turner
There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. -- George Farquhar
Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it. -- Samuel Johnson
I view anything on this farm as model. I actually painted Union Rags as a yearling. -- Jamie Wyeth
Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. -- John Donne
Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done. -- Maggie Stiefvater
There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. -- Herman Melville
Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound. -- Mark Twain
Rags, which are the reproach of poverty, are the beggar's robes, and graceful insignia of his profession, his tenure, his full dress, the suit in which he is expected to show himself in public. -- Charles Lamb
Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me. -- T. William Watts
My end goal in the piano is to play Scott Joplin's 'Maple Leaf Rag. -- Miranda Leek
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. -- John Steinbeck
[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
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. -- Angela Carter
With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread. -- Thomas Hood
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
Your incredible brain can take you from rags to riches, from loneliness to popularity, and from depression to happiness and joy - if you use it properly. -- Brian Tracy
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 underneath, is the sweetness that comes after grief. -- Rumi
Discard the protective rags of that vice which you called a virtue: humility. Learn to value yourself, which means: to FIGHT for your happiness, and when you learn that pride is the sum of all virtues, you will learn to live like a man. -- John Galt
And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. Slept but a sea apart on another beach among the bitter ashes of the world or stood in their rags lost to the same indifferent sun. -- Cormac McCarthy
Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world. -- Swami Vivekananda
It is all very well to say that children are happier with mud pies and rag dolls than with these elaborate delights. There may be something in this theory, but when their amusements are carried to such a point of luxurious and imaginative perfection it certainly gives them great and even unlimited enjoyment at the time. -- Ada Leverson
There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death, did paint out horror in most hideous shapes: whil'st men unhors'd, horses unmast'red, stray'd, some call'd on those whom they most dearly lov'd, some rag'd, some groan'd, some sigh'd, roar'd, promis'd, pray'd, as blows, falls, faintness, pain, hope, anguish mov'd. -- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling
These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening. -- Yann Martel
There is such a love, a love that creates value in what is loved. There is a love that turns rag dolls into priceless treasures. There is a love that fastens itself onto ragged little creatures, for reasons that no one could ever quite figure out, and makes them precious and valued beyond calculation. This is love beyond reason. This is the love of God. -- John Ortberg
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 sack off the branch of an oak tree. I'd wrap my hands with a necktie of my daddy's and punch at it. My mom gave me an hour a day. My brothers and sisters said, "Nah." I said, "You'll see." -- Joe Frazier
I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values. -- Al Sharpton
My life has been sensationalised into a rags to riches story. -- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
The man forget not, though in rags he lies, And know the mortal through a crown's disguise. -- Mark Akenside
It's nice to get your glad rags on for awards like the Baftas, but it doesn't happen all the time. -- Dan Stevens
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches,' but in fact, the Rosses were never raggedy. -- Diana Ross
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
I admit to subscribing to all the celebrity rags. The best part of being an author is if the celebs aren't being ridiculous enough, you can just make it up. -- Lauren Weisberger
The faith that anyone could move from rags to riches - with enough guts and gumption, hard work and nose to the grindstone - was once at the core of the American Dream. -- Robert Reich
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 up, we had already broken up in the trades, in the rags or whatever. -- Rosario Dawson
The house I grew up in had large plate-glass windows, which birds frequently crashed into headfirst. My father helped me assemble a bird hospital, consisting of a few shoe boxes, some old rags, and tiny dishes for water and food. -- Patti Davis
Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps. -- Alice Oswald
We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags that we were left ourselves for training. It seems very old school but it grounded me as a person and made me appreciate everything as a footballer, because all we got was a pair of boots. -- Colin Cooper
We are the rags to riches story, okay, the Robertson's are. Okay? We had very humble beginnings. Everybody's trying to figure out what, what's behind it, and all the Robertsons say, 'Hey, it's divine intervention.' Me personally, okay, God's gonna take 'Duck Dynasty' where he wants it to go, okay, and to the people that he wants it to go to. -- Si Robertson
Youth is a lifestyle; it's not a blessing from God. If we treat our bodies as if they are not the most precious things we possess, then obviously we will show wear and tear. We're like a good pair of jeans. If we take care of them, they'll remain classic forever, but if we batter and abuse them they'll look like tattered old rags. -- Akshay Kumar
Through your rags I see your vanity. -- Socrates
In our rags of light, all dressed to kill. -- Leonard Cohen
Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags. -- Walter Scott
Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table. -- Homer
I'll be damned if death wears my sadness as glad rags. -- Ray Bradbury
Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles. -- Alexander Pope
Life is nothing but rags and tags and filthy rags at that. -- Christina Stead
The ultimate idea of rags-to-riches success in America is the Hollywood movie star. -- Marin Ireland
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the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind. -- Margaret Halsey
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When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple. -- Henry David Thoreau
Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. -- John Dryden
So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars. -- Shel Silverstein
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and nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old -- Jack Kerouac
The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism. -- Charles A. Reich
A clown on a throne is still a clown. A king in rags is still a king. -- C. JoyBell C.
From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections. -- Criss Jami
In the town live witches nine: three in worsted, three in rags, and three in velvet fine... -- Celia Rees
Virtue, thou in rags, may challenge more than vice set off with all the trim of greatness. -- Philip Massinger
Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. -- Charles Dickens
One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
My life has often been described as 'from rags to riches' but in fact, the Ross's were never raggedy. -- Diana Ross
I saw a man clothed with rags . . . a book in his hand, and a great burden upon his back. -- John Bunyan
A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion. -- Edmund Burke
Someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well, these rags that I'm wearing will be fit for a king. -- Garth Brooks
A liar goes in fine clothes, a liar goes in rags, a liar is a liar, clothes or no clothes. -- Carl Sandburg
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
Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should. -- Lord Chesterfield
The wind bit hard at Valley Forge one Christmas. Soldiers tied rags on their feet. Red footprints wrote on the snow . . . -- Carl Sandburg
Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain! -- Sri Aurobindo
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
Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. -- Mark Twain
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
Mama sewed the rags together, sewing every piece with love. She made my coat of many colors that I was proud of. -- Dolly Parton
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
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
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
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
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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
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
If God was willing to wrap himself in rags and drink from a mother's breast, then all questions about his love for us are off the table. -- Max Lucado
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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
Fortune in men has some small diff'rence made, One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade, The cobbler apron'd, and the parson gown'd, The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. -- Alexander Pope
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Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep; And disgustingly upside down. Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags And grinning in their sleep. Bats! -- D. H. Lawrence
In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches life more remarkable than any of his stories. -- Richard Lederer
The most dangerous lechers and creeps are not drunks wearing rags on the street, but respectable men wearing hairspray, pinstripes, and wedding rings who lurk in the halls of power. -- Michelle Malkin
First of all, don't mix your hairpins up with mine! You .... Oh! All right, mix your muck with mine. Mix it! Mix your rags with my tatters! Mix it all up. ... -- Jean Genet
There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind. -- Denise Levertov
Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags, so true genius will shine, even through the coarsest style. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets, nor wear rags - at least in America. -- Eliza Leslie
[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul -- August Strindberg
I am a princess. All girls are. Even if they live in tiny old attics. Even if they dress in rags, even if they aren't pretty, or smart, or young. They're still princesses. -- Frances Hodgson Burnett
Gypsy [Rose Lee] is as unique as she is timeless. Her story is classic Americana, and the strangest rags-to-riches saga you'll ever read; I like to call it Horatio Alger meets Tim Burton. -- Karen Abbott
People are complaining of having rags and not riches, but I find it a blessing just to have rags, to wipe away the dirt and dust that may come in the course of life. -- Anthony Liccione
The American dream of rags to riches is a dream for a reason - it is hard to achieve; were everyone to do it, it wouldn't be a dream but would rather be reality. -- Robert Fulton
I tell you one thing that's great about children. They don't need a show to have fun. What do they need? A book of matches, some oily rags, a little brother... that's all they need. -- Dave Attell
Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it. -- William Shakespeare

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