Dung Quotes

54 Dung quotes by 47 unique authors

The grower of trees, the gardener, the man born to farming, whose hands reach into the ground and sprout, to him the soil is a… — Wendell Berry
Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap. — Thomas Jefferson
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. — Desiderius Erasmus
It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. — Mark Twain
What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG! — Eric Idle
If men had been forbidden to make porridge of camel's dung, they would have done it, saying that they would not have been forbidden to… — Muhammad
When the Way governs the world, the proud stallions drag dung carriages. When the Way is lost to the world, war horses are bred outside… — Laozi
Taxi September along Jessore Road Oxcart skeletons drag charcoal load past watery fields thru rain flood ruts Dung cakes on treetrunks, plastic-roof huts Wet processions… — Allen Ginsberg
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the… — Sean O'Casey
There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good. — Charles Saatchi
"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make… — Alexandra David-Neel
Cows provide approx 100 million tonnes of dry dung a year costing Rs 5000 crores which saves 50 million tonnes of firewood which again means… — Maneka Gandhi
The lancet fluke (Dicrocoelium) infects the brain of ants by taking control and driving them to climb to the top of a blade of grass… — Darrel Ray
A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a… — Jean Baudrillard
I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by… — Henry David Thoreau
Flowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. — Saint Francis de Sales
Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. — Heraclitus
Sometimes I scrape off a lot. You have on the floor, like cow dung in the field, this big glob of paint... and it's just… — Philip Guston
Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allover fields of shimmering dots and clumps of dung, are like cave paintings… — Jerry Saltz
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of… — Voltaire
My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in… — C.S. Lewis
Well, I certainly don't," said Percy sanctimoniously. "I shudder to think what the state of my in-tray would be if I was away from work… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Your pillow alone may be home to 40 million bed mites. (To them your head is just one large oily bon-bon). And don't think a… — Bill Bryson
The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were… — Erin Hunter

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