Drag Quotes

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption. (James Thurber)
The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. View quote
James Thurber
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. View quote
Alanis Morissette
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. View quote
Mark Twain
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Everyone is dragged on by their favorite pleasure. View quote
Virgil
It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen. View quote
Dolly Parton
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to slaughter. View quote
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. View quote
Paul Theroux
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition. (Eliza Farnham)
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. View quote
Mark Twain
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Two drowning people can't save each other. All they can do is drag each other down. View quote
Carsten Jensen
Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption. View quote
Paul Reiser
I do resent that when you're in the most cool, powerful time of your life, which is your 40s, you're put out to pasture. I think women are so much cooler when they're older. So it's a drag that we're not allowed to age. View quote
Rosanna Arquette
A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kafir. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
Deleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation. View quote
Tom Hodgkinson
Everybody's got a secret Sonny, Something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it; They carry it with them every step that they take. Till some day they just cut it loose. Cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions, Or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town. View quote
Bruce Springsteen
Dark forces dragged me away from the keyboard, swirling forces of irresistible intensity and power. View quote
Boris Johnson
My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence. (Elvis Costello)
I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one. View quote
Robert E. Howard
Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others) and unless the writer is quite ruthless with these amiable footlers, they will drag him down with them. View quote
Cyril Connolly
Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car; Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear The flying chariot through the field of air. View quote
Erasmus Darwin
Prominence is cool, but when the delusion kicks in it can be a drag. Especially if you choose to surround yourself with friends and not acolytes. View quote
Barbara Kruger
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