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Quotes About Excrement

Foul feeders! Slipped, are ye, on your own excrement? Parasites! Having made the world lousy, imagine ye are of significance to Heaven? Desiring to learn-think ye to escape hurt in the rape of your ignorance? For of what I put in, far more than innocence shall come out!
~ Austin Osman Spare
you'll be flying a cargo plane full of rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong.
~ Ernest Cline
In the Communist era, excrement took on political importance, because Party policy decided excrement was essential for the Great Agricultural Leap Forward.
~ Rose George
And so I think what miracle it would be if this miracle which man attends eternally should turn out to be nothing more than these two enormous turds which the faithful disciple dropped in the bidet .
~ Henry Miller
what privilege this filthy excrement had, that we must carry about us a fine handkerchief to receive it, and, which was more, afterward to lap it carefully up and carry it all day about in our pockets, which, he said, could not but be much more nauseous and offensive, than to see it thrown away, as we did all other evacuations" – A gentleman
~ Michel de Montaigne
Erigena's argument holds the key to a theological justification (in other words, a theodicy) of shit.
~ Milan Kundera
This is a show of the shit variety
~ Carl Hiaasen
The men booted them on, cursing such deep animal persistence as was not satisfied by the snuffing of one or ten or thirty, but would, if not moved otherwise, stop and consider each offering on the chance that one might hold some new clarification on the unseen nature of things, some great and final proof of meaning to be divined from the excrement of buffalo.
~ Karen Fisher
O dromedário tem o olho do cu mais elegante de todos os animais que conheço, nada tem que ver com a carne rosada e berrante do recto que se vê num cavalo. E produz a mais delicada bosta - uma forma elíptica, muito perfeita, que depressa endurece ao sol. a forma e a textura de uma noz-pecã.
~ Bruce Chatwin
Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.
~ William S. Burroughs
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
~ Gene Spafford, 1992
Blinded by the shine from Potosí silver, the Spaniards paid little attention to conquered peoples' excremental practices.
~ Charles C. Mann
Because charcoal contains few nutrients, Glaser argued, "high-nutrient inputs—excrement and waste such as turtle, fish, and animal bones—are necessary." Special soil microorganisms are also likely to play a role in its persistent fertility.
~ Charles C. Mann
In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.
~ Malcolm Lowry
And now a few words about the excrement shaft; it was basically a six-story indoor outhouse, with a hole in each floor. A squatter. So you had to look up, and if you saw someone's ass above you… well, too much information. More importantly, the shit shaft could be a means of escape. Always look for an escape.
~ Nelson DeMille
It was unclean to clean; it was unclean even to notice. It was the business of the sweepers to remove excrement, and until the sweepers came, people were content to live in the midst of their own excrement.
~ V.S. Naipaul
An outside toilet occupied one corner, its door half-open. 'He's not been here long enough to accumulate much crap
~ Val McDermid
People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight of monkeys eating their own excrement turns some people's stomachs. They might not mind so much if monkeys did not- so grotesquely- resemble human beings.
~ James Baldwin
Since man's highest mission on earth is to spiritualize everything, it is his excrement in particular that needs it most.
~ Salvador Dali
Under the microscope you clearly perceive that these insects have organs, orifices, excrement; they do, most emphatically, copulate. Escorted on the one side by the Bot or Warble, on the other by the Hessian Fly, Miss Ormond advanced statelily, if slowly, into the open. Never did her features show more sublime than when lit up by the candour of her avowal. This is excrement; these, though Ritzema Bos is positive to the contrary, are the generative organs of the male. I've proved it.
~ Virginia Woolf
There were several comparisons with excrement. Unfavorable comparisons.
~ Laura J. Shapiro
The stone that once held the Magellan escutcheon met with a special fate: It was covered with excrement.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Innumerable stains splashed wildly against the floor, the walls, the iron stanchions … everywhere. Fet recoiled in disgust. "This is all …?" "It is excrement," said Setrakian. "The creatures will shit while they eat." Fet looked around in amazement.
~ Guillermo del Toro
Four years later, the comparison worked in the opposite direction: after having looted the watches, the jewelry, the clothes from all of Eastern Europe, the Soviet soldier returned grumbling to the USSR, astonished at the comfort of the non-Communist countries and disgusted with his "paradise" of wooden spoons, tattered dresses, and muddy excrement stretching around his house-barracks.
~ Leon Degrelle