gutter quotes

One evening in October, when I was one-third sober, An'taking home a'load' with manly pride; My poor feet began to stutter, so I lay down in the gutter, And a pig came up an' lay down by my side. Then we sang 'It's all fair weather when good fellowsget together,' Till a lady passing by was heard to say: 'You can tell a man who boozes by the company he chooses', And the pig got up and slowly walked away.

- Benjamin Hapgood Burt
  'The Pig Got Up and Slowly Walked  Away'.

Mr Raymond Martin, beyond question, was born in the gutter, and bred in a Board-School, where they played marbles. He was further (I give the barest handful from great store) a Flopshus Cad, an Outrageous Stinker, a Jelly-bellied Flag-flapper (this was Stalky's contribution), and several other things which it is not seemly to put down.

- (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
  Stalky & Co.

When they come downstairs from their IvoryTowers, Idealists are veryapt to walk straight into the gutter.

- Logan Pearsall Smith
Afterthoughts,'Other People'.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

- Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills Wilde
  Said by Lord Darlington. LadyWindermere's Fan, act 3.