He that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Haggai1:6.

He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,öwhy, theyare in the happy condition of judicious, unencumbered travellers in Europe; they crossthe frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet bag.

-Melville, Herman
  Of Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

-Ruskin,John
Letter.

First, sturdy March with brows full sternly bent, And arme'  d strongly, rode upon a ram, The same which over Hellespontus swam: Yet in his hand a spade he also hent, And in a bag all sorts of seeds ysame, Which on the earth he strowe'  d as he went, And filled her womb with fruitful hope of nourishment.

-Spenser, Edmund
  The Faerie Queen,'Mutability', canto 7, stanza 32. hent = grasped; ysame = together.

Feed the Birds,Tuppence a Bag! Feed the Birds, Tuppence a Bag!

-Travers, P(amela) L(yndon)
  Mary Poppins, ch.7.

Iwill not permitthirtymentotravelfourhundredmilesto agitate a bag of wind.

-White, Andrew Dickson
On refusing permission for a team from Cornell University to visit Michigan to play a game of American football. Quoted in D Wallechinsky The People's Almanac (1975).