Wash Rags Quotes & Sayings

He sits in an old armchair in the corner covered with bits of blankets and a bucket behind the chair that stinks enough to make you sick and when you look at that old man in the dark corner you want to get a hose with hot water and strip him and wash him down and give him a big feed of rashers and eggs and mashed potatoes with loads of butter and salt and onions.
I want to take the man from the Boer War and the pile of rags in the bed and put them in a big sunny house in the country with birds chirping away outside the window and a stream gurgling. — Frank McCourt

I read the other day an account of a meeting between John Knox and John Calvin. Imagine a dialogue between a pestilence and a famine! — Robert Green Ingersoll

In Koln, a town of monks and bones,
And pavement fang'd with murderous stones,
And rags and hags, and hideous wenches,
I counted two-and-seventy stenches,
All well defined, and several stinks!
Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks,
The River Rhine, it is well known,
Doth wash your city of Cologne;
But tell me, nymphs! what power divine
Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I go through money like a bloke with three arms. — Anton Du Beke

You begin always knowing nothing. You remain forever an amateur, a first timer. — Jeffrey Eugenides

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. — Mahatma Gandhi

Boys think girls are like books. If the cover doesn't catch their eye, they won't bother to read what's inside. — Ella Frank

Every new writing project, every new artistic project, needs to be protected so it can grow on its own before it begins to creep out into the world. — Edward Carey

The future of any corporation is as good as the value system of the leaders and followers in the organization. — N. R. Narayana Murthy