Money was the manure of politics.

[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember,…

— Bess Truman

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

And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me… And as to you corpse,…

— Walt Whitman

When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring?

— George Erik Rupp

Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to…

— Henry David Thoreau

The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding…

— Tom Robbins

All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves, crumbles, and…

— Jethro Tull

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

— Cyril Connolly

My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my…

— Charles Macklin

“Even manure can accomplish great things when placed into the right environment.”

— Raymond C. Nolan

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

— D. H. Lawrence

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

— Alec Baldwin

I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right…

— Vanessa Carlton

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come…

— Denis Leary

“Like me!" I said. "I have to work hard, too. Why, I haven't thrown manure in over two months!”

— Jennifer L. Holm