Rags To Riches

Rags to riches refers to any situation in which a person rises from poverty to wealth, or sometimes from obscurity to fame. This is a common archetype in literature and popular culture (for example, the writings of Horatio Alger, Jr.).

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Famous quotes containing the words rags and/or riches:

    “I fasted for some forty days on bread and buttermilk
    For passing round the bottle with girls in rags or silk,
    In country shawl or Paris cloak, had put my wits astray,
    And what’s the good of women for all that they can say
    Is fol de rol de rolly O.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)