“A ragged colt may make a good horse.”
French Proverb
“A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.”
William Carlos Williams
“Well, that's baseball. Rags to riches one day and riches to rags the next. But I've been in it thirty-six years and I'm used to it.”
Casey Stengel
“At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth/ Of thieves and murderers: there I him espied,/ Who straight, `Your suit is granted,' said, and died.”
George Herbert
“I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”
T.S. Eliot
“Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should”
Lord Chesterfield
“Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.”
Scott Joplin
