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Letter "R" » rags
«There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty»
«With fingers weary and worn, / With eyelids heavy and red, / A woman sat in unwomanly rags, / Plying her needle and thread - / Stitch! stitch! stitch!»
«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.»
Author: Casey Stengel
(Baseball Player, Manager)
| About:
Baseball
| Keywords:
rag, rags, rags to riches, riches, thirty-six, thirty, Thirty one
«They are for religion when in rags and contempt, but I am for him when he walks in his golden slippers in the sunshine and with applause.»
«So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.»
«You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.»
Author: Brian Tracy
| Keywords:
frustration, rags, rags to riches, self-fulfillment, supercomputer, supercomputers, To Joy
«The City of New York is like an enormous citadel, a modern Carcassonne. Walking between the magnificent skyscrapers one feels the presence on the fringe of a howling, raging mob, a mob with empty bellies, a mob unshaven and in rags.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities
| Keywords:
bellies, Carcassonne, citadel, citadels, City of New York, enormous, fringe, fringed, fringes, howling, magnificent, mob, rag, raging, rags, skyscraper, skyscrapers, The Citadel, The City, unshaven
«Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should»
«Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well-proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters.»
Author: Lord Chesterfield
(Diplomat, Statesman, Wit)
| Keywords:
coarse, disadvantage, ever so, proportioned, rags, tatter, tattered, tatters, well-proportioned
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