(34 quotes found)
“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
“I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.”
T.S. Eliot
“Now that my ladder's goneI must lie down where all ladders startIn the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.”
William Butler Yeats
“A ragged colt may make a good horse.”
French Proverb
“Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should”
Lord Chesterfield
“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
“Because it has such a ragged movement. It suggests something like that.”
Scott Joplin
“All our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf.”
Bible
“[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
