grub quotes

I am perfectly aware that the mosquito and sandfly have a purpose in this world, but why don't they attend to it? Their destiny is to keep down microscopic insects†but their sphere of useiswhentheyareinthegrub state.Why don't they stick at that and not trouble innocent unoffending prospectors who can't carry a curtain?

- Charles Douglas
Quoted in  J Pascoe (ed) Mr Explorer Douglas (1957).

In an English ship, they say, it is poor grub, poor pay, and easy work; in an American ship, good grub, good pay, and hard work. And this is applicable to the working populations of both countries.

-Vince(ntThomas) Lombardi
  The People of the Abyss, ch.20.

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.

-John Crowe Ransom
  Poems and Essays,'Survey of Literature'.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

- George Bernard Shaw
  The Man to Raina. Arms and the Man, act1.