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Rakes are more suspicious than honest men. -- Samuel Richardson
Every woman is at heart a rake. -- Alexander Pope
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake. -- Henny Youngman
We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake... -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband. -- Samuel Richardson
Once shame touches your being at any point, even the most distant nerve is implicated, whether you know it or not; any fleeting encounter or random thought will rake up the anguish and add to it. -- Stefan Zweig
People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note. -- Eugene Chadbourne
Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man's left to epitomize! -- Abraham Cowley
The readiness with which women are apt to forgive the men who have deceived other women; and that inconsiderate notion of too many of them that a reformed rake makes the best husband, are great encouragements to vile men to continue their profligacy. -- Samuel Richardson
Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. And that price is blood. The sound of it in your veins. The pound of it in your head. The volume of it in a human body; the sickness when you've spilled it. -- Janet Morris
I started using contact microphones that you can place on common, ordinary objects, like a rake. I put a microphone on it and it picked up the tines vibrating and turned it into a horrible din. What attracted me to it was the horrible din - that's what I really liked. -- Eugene Chadbourne
I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind and work until my heart is short, then go out slowly with a feeble grin, my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray from cramps and the lack of oxygen. -- Richard Hugo
I play these sort of comical instruments I invented, like the electric rake and the electric plunger. I do a lot of almost stand-up comedy material. Just the juxtaposition of the different styles in itself sometimes is funny. Like, I do sort of an acoustic version of 'Purple Haze' that has some bluegrass licks in it. -- Eugene Chadbourne
I want to be taken seriously as the type of musician that plays stuff like an electric rake. I mean, how seriously do you take someone like Spike Jones? They take him pretty seriously - a really good musician who made a great contribution in terms of humor, which is part of what I try to do too. -- Eugene Chadbourne
If a conservative order is indeed to return, we ought to know the tradition which is attached to it, so that we may rebuild society; if it is not to be restored, still we ought to understand conservative ideas so that we may rake from the ashes what scorched fragments of civilizations escape the conflagration of unchecked will and appetite. -- Russell Kirk
Who can dispute that the governments of the United States constitute the most voracious tax system in the history of mankind? In the year 2000, those governments succeeded in laying hands on more than $3 trillion - almost $11,000 each for the 275 million men, women, and children resident in the country. No other nation-state rakes in an amount even close to the U.S. total. -- Robert Higgs
Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress. Act a charity sometimes. When a poor creature (outwardly and visibly such) comes before thee, do not stay to inquire whether the "seven small children," in whose name he implores thy assistance, have a veritable existence. Rake not into the bowels of unwelcome truth, to save a halfpenny. It is good to believe him. -- Charles Lamb
Behold great Whitman, whose licentious line Delights the rake, and warms the souls of swine; Whose fever'd fancy shuns the measur'd pace, And copies Ovid's filth without his grace. In his rough brain a genius might have grown, Had he not sought to play the brute alone; But void of shame, he let his wit run wild, And liv'd and wrote as Adam's bestial child. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Reformed rakes often make the best husbands -- Judith McNaught
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Reformed rakes make the best husbands,"Violet said. "Rubbish and you know it." -Anthony to Violet -- Julia Quinn
I've always tried different stuff in the studio. I use rakes, spoons, cans... I'm a surround-sound type of guy. -- Timbaland
So why did he do it?"Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistake. He fell in love. -- Stephanie Perkins
So why did he do it?"Cricket rakes a hand through his hair. "For the same reason everyone makes mistakes. He fell in love. -- Stephanie Perkins
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer. -- Daniel Defoe
Baccarat is a game whereby the croupier gathers in money with a flexible sculling oar, then rakes it home. If I could have borrowed his oar I would have stayed. -- Mark Twain
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Amazon is a marvelous conglomeration and delivery system for products of every imaginable function. But the book 'business' is really not the same as the sale of lawn rakes or adapters for telephones. -- Janet Fitch

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