muck quotes

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Essays, no.15,'Of Seditions and Troubles'.

Then the world seemed none so bad, And I myself a sterling lad; And down in lovely muck I've lain, Happy till I woke again.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.62.

What are you going to sing? All I can say issing 'em muck! It's all they can understand!

- Dame Nellie real name Helen Mitchell Melba
c.1907   Advice to Dame Clara Butt on her first tour of  Australia. Quoted in Winifred Ponder Clara Butt: Her Life-Story (1928).

The men with the muck-rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

-Theodore Roosevelt
  House of Representatives,14 Apr.