#rags

Rags-to-riches story? I've heard that gospel before, no thanks. I find no greater inspiration than the riches-to-rags story of redemption, the story of God leaving His golden throne to pursue a wretch like me. ↗

— T. William Watts

#gospel #inspiration #rags #riches #wealth

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise. ↗

— Mark Akenside

#disguise #forget #know #lies #man

There is no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. ↗

— George Farquhar

#crime #like #nor #poverty #rags

I had to wear that suit, so I put in my required time in the gym. But I'm not one of those actors who romanticizes his trials working out and brags that he can bench press a panda now. ↗

— Ryan Reynolds

#brags #gym #had #his #i

Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time. ↗

— John Donne

#clime #days #hours #knows #love

There's no scandal like rags, nor any crime so shameful as poverty. ↗

— George Farquhar

#crime #like #nor #poverty #rags

We had to be down early to get the best stuff for the pros we looked after and then get the rags that we were left ourselves for training. It seems very old school but it grounded me as a person and made me appreciate everything as a footballer, because all we got was a pair of boots. ↗

— Colin Cooper

#appreciate #because #best #boots #down

Pop science goes flying off in all kinds of fashionable directions, and it often drags a lot of SF writers with it. I've been led astray like that myself at times. ↗

— Greg Egan

#been #directions #drags #fashionable #flying

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist. ↗

— Plutarch

#fate #follows #him #leads #resist

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals. ↗

— Herman Melville

#devils #dignity #equals #hell #hell is