80 Manure Quotes
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Famous Manure Quotes
Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it — J. R. D. Tata
I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger. — Eartha Kitt
Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell. — Clint Murchison, Jr.
The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world. — Luis Palau
Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around. — Winston Churchill
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. — Henry David Thoreau
Information is like compost; it does no good unless you spread it around. — Eliot Coleman
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
Compost makes houseplants very happy. — Shalom Harlow
He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages. — Mark Twain
Every Saturday we work in the yard, pick up the dog doo, hope that it's hard. — Joe Walsh
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. — Saint Francis de Sales
I want my ashes either with some really good primo or as some fertilizer for plants. — Tommy Chong
Grain must return to the earth, die, and decompose for new growth to begin. — Egyptian Proverbs
When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land. — John Stuart Mill
Short Manure Quotes
- A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. — Emile Zola
- Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. — J. Paul Getty
- Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around. — Brooke Astor
- Making money selling manure is better than losing money selling musk. — Egyptian Proverbs
- The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. — D. H. Lawrence
- He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure. — Moliere
- The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. — Cyril Connolly
- To embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of manure. — Odo of Cluny
- The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain. — Justus von Liebig
- Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy. — Alec Baldwin
Soil Day Quotes
Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. — Simone de Beauvoir
I see the day in our own lifetime that reverence for the natural systems, the oceans, the rainforests, the soil, the grasslands, and all other living things will be so strong that no narrow ideology based upon politics or economics will overcome it. — Jerry Brown
Lo! sweeten'd with the summer light, The full-juiced apple, waxing over-mellow, Drops in a silent autumn night. All its allotted length of days The flower ripens in its place, Ripens and fades, and falls, and hath no toil, Fast-rooted in the fruitful soil. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me. — Henry David Thoreau
There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace. — William Bourke Cockran
Shock, confusion, fear, anger, grief, and defiance. On Sept. 11, 2001, and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil, President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance. — Ron Fournier
How can I stand on the ground every day and not feel its power? How can I live my life stepping on this stuff and not wonder at it? — William Logan
Experience is all I have. I equate song-writing with archeology. Every day you dig. You dig into different places within yourself - even finding places that you've rarely been. And buried within the soil is song. — Jon Foreman
I think that if people would be willing to grow some of their own food or eat locally grown organic foods on a regular basis we could significantly decrease the amount of harmful chemicals we pump into our soil every day. — Gary Player
[Donald] Trump, whether he designed it or not, happens to be the first thing in the news on UK soil the day after the Brexit vote. — Rush Limbaugh
People Writing About Manure
More Manure Quotes
Gardening is the handiest excuse for being a philosopher. Nobody guesses, nobody accuses, nobody knows, but there you are, Plato in the peonies, Socrates force-growing his own hemlock. A man toting a sack of blood manure across his lawn is kin to Atlas letting the world spin easy on his shoulder. — Ray Bradbury
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
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
[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
The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock. — Catharine Beecher
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
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
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure. — Ernest Hemingway
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
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. — Charlotte Bronte
Artificial manures lead inevitably to artificial nutrition, artificial food, artificial animals and finally to artificial men and women. — Albert Howard
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
Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby. — Lee Marvin
Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly. — Francis Chan
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul. — Wayne Dyer
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. — Cyril Connolly
If I discover a manure which will enable me to make a piece of land produce 20 per cent more corn, I may withdraw at least a portion of my capital from the most unproductive part of my farm. — David Ricardo
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. — Thornton Wilder
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. — Richard Buckminster Fuller
It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything. — E. B. White
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
When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring? — George Erik Rupp
My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts. — Ree Drummond
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
In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only! — Henry David Thoreau
Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers. — Margaret Cavendish
A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity. — Justus von Liebig
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
You need bad things to make good things. It’s like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure. — Mike Watt
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