That was inedible muck, and there wasn't enough of it

“The thing about my mom's Bundts is that they are not very good. Terrible. Actually inedible, very nearly indestructible. Between you and me." -…

— Nicola Yoon

You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not…

— Martin Buber

“Muck: A state of being that disempowered and fills us with self-doubt, self-hate, worry, fear, mediocrity, and an overall feeling of hopelessness from knowing…

— Teri Karjala

the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may…

— Jessica Mitford

“To contrive a little kingdom, in the midst of the universal muck, then shit on it, ah that was me all over.”

— Samuel Beckett

“Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly.”

— Stuart Aken

I like to look glamorous sometimes, but it's not the be all and end all. I can muck in as well.

— Judi Shekoni

Having been through the muck and mire, I've had my own brush with bad choices.

— Michael K. Williams

Every good newspaper is muckraking to some degree. It's part of our job. Where there's muck, we ought to rake it.

— Anonymous

Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and…

— Theodore Roosevelt

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

— Aldous Huxley

“This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.”

— Donald Barthelme

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

— Francis Bacon

“One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.”

— Will Advise

“Down in lovely muck I’ve lain, Happy till I woke again.”

— A.E. Housman