Quotes About Manure

If I had a copper for every fly that swarms on you, beast, I'd buy the Spanish Empire! You smell worse than Vera Cruz in the springtime, and there is more filth clinging to your body than most animals shit in a year. Truly you must have sprung fully formed from a heap of manure, as flies and Popes do—may God have mercy on my soul for saying that!

Don't use 'tea' and 'manure' in the same sentence or I'll have to pound you into the ground." "You're such a baby," Lexi said. "It's science. You're supposed to love science." "I draw the line at foul-smelling llama-manure tea.

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 as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.

Self and soil! — ha! ha! "The soil is always grateful," says my uncle — "makes you a return in exact proportion to what you bestow on it in the way of manure and labor, — men don't." Says he, "the man that has got one hand in your pocket shakes the other fist in your face; the man that has got both hands in your pocket spits in your face."

Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields.

I'm an entrepreneur. Entrepreneur? Pepper said the last part like manure. That's just a hustler who pays taxes.

A new cologne is coming out. It's for cowboys, and it's made from cow's manure. That way the women will be on you like flies!

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?… The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.

If orthodoxy is impure water, he tells us, neology is liquid manure.

She's Magnificent, Darius said, smiling proudly as he vaulted the steps and followed Aphrodite. I can think of a lot of m words that she could be. Magnificent isn't one of them, Stark grumbled. Mental and mean pop into my head, I said. Manure pops into mine, Stark said. Manure? I think she's full of shit, but it's to many words and doesn't start with an m , so that's as close as I could get, he said.

Goats and oxen, pulling carts in from the fields, left their big, smelly plops all over.

Try to imagine," one commentator observed, "the ambivalent anxieties of a freewheeling people with one foot in manure and the other in the telegraph office.

Somewhere – or Nowhere, perhaps – there is a society ruled by philosophers. They have clean hands and pure hearts. But even in the metropolis of light there are middens and manure-heaps, swarming with flies. Even in the republic of virtue you need a man who will shovel up the shit.

Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell?

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

I felt like a champion because I was figuring shit out. I was a doer and a getter-doner, and it was okay to be identified by the neighbors as the little lady who had a dump truck of manure delivered, a load that made the entire neighborhood smell like a dairy barn for weeks.

Beauty and power was commonplace to the dragons as mud and manure to a stable boy.

SCAT!" Stink swatted the sandwich out of Judy's hand. He flipped it over. Stink jumped up and pointed. "Oogley-boogley, ugh, ugh, ugh! Judy stared at something brown and squishy on the bottom of her sandwich. "What IS that?" "It's scat! As in doo-doo! Dung! Manure! POOP!" He showed her his sandwich, smeared with brown goo. Judy and Stink hopped up and leaped as far away as they could, falling off their giant teacup and screaming "AGHHHHH!

Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants.

Keep carrots away from soil that has recently had manure added into it, or they may grow "legs" and appear forked. Work used coffee grounds into the soil as fertilizer.

Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.