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Tag Name "Manure" (60)

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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
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When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget.
Isa Boletini
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Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
Winston Churchill
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Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.
J. Paul Getty
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Surely it should be a matter of moral responsibility that we humans, different from other animals mainly by virtue of our more highly developed intellect and, with it, our greater capacity for understanding and compassion, ensure that medical progress slowly detaches its roots from the manure of non-human animal suffering and despair.
Jane Goodall
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The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.
Alan Kay
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I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another.
John Chamberlain
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Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.
Alec Baldwin
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The more fodder, the more flesh the more flesh, the more manure the more manure, the more grain.
Justus von Liebig
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[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.
Bess Truman
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The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.
Luis Palau
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It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure.
Carl Andre
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Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.
Matthew Henry
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The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
Cyril Connolly
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If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds!
Meryl Streep
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
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The simple and terrifying reality, forbidden from discussion in America, was that despite spending $600 billion a year on the military, despite having the best fighting force the world had ever known, they were getting their asses kicked by illiterate peasants who made bombs out of manure and wood.
Michael Hastings
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My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.
Denis Leary
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Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
P. T. Barnum
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Wilbur burst into tears. I dont want to die, he moaned. I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure pile with all my friends. I want to breathe the beautiful air and lie in the beautiful sun.
E. B. White
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Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.
Eartha Kitt
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I very much wish that some day or other you may have time to learn Greek, because that language is an idea. Even a little of it is like manure to the soil of the mind, and makes it bear finer flowers.
Sara Coleridge
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Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.
Edward Conze
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