Manure Quotes

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  I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

  Eartha Kitt

  Stronger, Used, Thrown

  FaceBook post by Eartha Kitt from Sep 14, 2011

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• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Nature, Flower, Roots

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Smell, Saving

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• Rumors and Manure both get spread around but only one is beneficial

  Ed Furgol

  Rumor, Spread, Beneficial

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• A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Life, Motivational, Atheist

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

  Billie Holiday

  Funny, Horse, Science

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• No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

  George Orwell

  Men, President, Doe

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• Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

  Brooke Astor

  Money, Humorous, Worthy

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• All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world.

  Victor Hugo

  Animal, Sea, Land

  Victor Hugo (2007). “Hugo's Works”, p.100, Wildside Press LLC

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• Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

  Francis Bacon

  Money, Littles, Use

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  The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strength, Wisdom, Veterans Day

  Letter to William Stephens Smith, 13 Nov. 1787

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• Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

  Thornton Wilder

  Encouraging, Money, Humorous

  "The Matchmaker". Play by Thornton Wilder. Act 4, 1957.

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• He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

  Moliere

  Profound, Looks, Literature

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• The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Form, Compost, Greater

  Elizabeth Arnim, Elizabeth Von Arnim (2005). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.219, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

  Robert Grosseteste

  Sheep, Lambs, Cows

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• Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

  Alec Baldwin

  Turns, Policy, Public Policy

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• Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Tree, Humanity

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• I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.

  Eleanor Mondale

  Girl, Years, Riding

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• It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.

  Stevie Smith

  Fall, Water, Hatred

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.76, New Directions Publishing

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• We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Soul, Dew, Should

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• The smell of manure, of sun on foliage, of evaporating water, rose to my head; two steps farther, and I could look down into the vegetable garden enclosed within its tall pale of reeds - rich chocolate earth studded emerald green, frothed with the white of cauliflowers, jeweled with the purple globes of eggplant and the scarlet wealth of tomatoes.

  Doris Lessing

  Summer, Garden, Eggplant

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• Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.'' - 'Fine! That’s beautiful. But I wasn’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let’s drink up and forget it. That’s more my idea.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Beautiful, Dream, Sleep

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• Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.

  P. T. Barnum

  Land, Advertising, Increase

  P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.45, Lulu.com

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• You know what they say in Arkansas...manure happens.

  Jerry Lawler

  Arkansas, Happens, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know when you're milking a cow and you have all that foamy white milk in the bucket and you're just about through, when all of a sudden the cow switches her tail through a pile of manure and slaps it into that foamy white milk. That's Bill Fulbright.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  White, Buckets, Tails

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