Despite the best efforts of the news media, it's impossible to sense the confusion, observe the destruction, smell the stench, hear the cries, dry the tears, clothe the threadbare, as well as hug and feed the hurting and hungry unless you're here,
Quotes about threadbare (7 Quotes)
This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.
I don't like your miserable lonely single ''front name.'' It is so limited, so meager it has no versatility it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility it is worn threadbare with much use it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.
Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.
Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale.
Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.