“With fingers weary and worn,
With eyelids heavy and red,
A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,
Plying her needle and thread—
Stitch! stitch! stitch!
In poverty, hunger, and dirt,
And still with a voice of dolorous pitch
She sang the “Song of the Shirt.””

“I took her from rags right through to stitches,
Oh baby, tonight we sleep in separate ditches.”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician

“A stitch in five saves fifteen or whatever - Another re-evaluation by Karl of the phrase 'A stitch in time saves nine”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

“6291. A Stitch in Time
May save nine.”

Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual

“Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.”

China Miéville book The Scar

“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

“You want to put a band-aid on something that needs stitches.”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

“Hugh should’ve brought a banner with I AM BAD stitched on it in gold.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”

Augusten Burroughs book Magical Thinking

“Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay