“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
“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
“A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.”
William Carlos Williams
“All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.”
Bible
“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
“As if you cut open a rag doll with a sill name, and found inside:Real intestines, real lungs, a beating heart and blood. A lot of hot, sticky blood.”
Chuck Palahniuk
