Poverty was an ornament on a learned man like a red ribbon on a white horse.
source: Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”
topic: Horse, Men, White, White Horse, Red Ribbon

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
topic: Military, War, Fighting, Soldiers At War, Old Soldiers
Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.
topic: Real, Beer, Boys, Red Ribbon
topic: Beach, Kissing, Hands, Bracelet, Red Ribbon
topic: Fighting, Doctors, People, Red Ribbon
source: Tom Hanks' Academy Award Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. March 21, 1994.
topic: Healing, Eye, Angel, Crowded, Red Ribbon
topic: Animal, Boys, Expression, Cobras, Contrition