Muck Quotes
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I would never have imagined the River Ganga could get like this, with stinking water, green and brown colored. It's pure toxic muck.
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More Muck Quotes
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.
— 1896 A Shropshire Lad, no.62.
My grandmother used to say before you moan about the muck on someone else's glasses make sure you're not on about the muck on your own her glasses were filthy
john hegley— "Grandma's glasses" (cf: Matthew 7:3)
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Francis Bacon— 1625 Essays, no.15,'Of Seditions and Troubles'.
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— 1906 House of Representatives,14 Apr.
By the living jingo, she was all of a muck of sweat.
Oliver Goldsmith— Ch. 9. (The Vicar of Wakefield (1766))
I talk about going to his Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water"... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.
sarah vowell— Referring to George W. Bush on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2006-02-21)
Where there's muck there's brass.
— Meaning: "There is of money to be made whenever there is muck or dirt of some kind."
— Source for meaning:Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 299.
Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
bill mollison— chapter 9.1 (Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988))
Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them. … If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone.
theodore roosevelt— Address on the laying of the cornerstone of the House Office Building, Washington, D.C. (14 April 1906).
"Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of immortal beauty "
r. s. thomas— "Poetry For Supper"
The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.
— Theodore Roosevelt, address at the Corner-stone laying of the Office Building of House of Representatives (April 14, 1906).
For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much, the wheel, New York, wars and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.
douglas adams— Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), Chapter 23.
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, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.
theodore roosevelt— Address on the laying of the cornerstone of the House Office Building, Washington, D.C. (14 March 1906)
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
— Francis Bacon, 'Of seditions and Troubles', Essays, 15
