Manure Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Manure Money Money Is Like Manure Spread Use
Money is like manure. It's most effective when it's spread around widely. — John Paul Getty Jr Copy Share Image
Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around. — Brooke Astor Copy Share Image
Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it — J. R. D. Tata Copy Share Image
Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place,… — Clint Murchison Jr Copy Share Image
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Money is like fertiliser. When spread around, things grow; when it's hoarded, it stinks. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mass,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand. — Japanese Proverb Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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 dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces… — Charles Macklin Copy Share
All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves, crumbles, and divides the earth very much. This is the chief and almost only use of dung. ... This proves, that its (manure) use is not to nourish, but to dissolve, i.e., divide the terrestrial matter, which affords… — Jethro Tull Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,--to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring? — George Erik Rupp Copy Share Image
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me… And as to you corpse, I think you are good manure, but that does not offend me, I smell the white roses sweet-scented and growing, I reach to the leafy lips — I reach to the polished breasts of melons. And… — Walt Whitman Copy Share