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Rumors and Manure both get spread around but only one is beneficial -- Ed Furgol
I think of my art materials not as junk but as garbage. Manure, actually: it goes from being the waste material of one being to the life-source of another. -- John Chamberlain
Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy. -- Alec Baldwin
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. -- Francis Bacon
Money is like manure: if you don't spread it around, nothing grows. -- Tom Douglas
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells. -- J. Paul Getty
What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure? -- George Segal
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. -- D. H. Lawrence
You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly. -- Hank Williams
My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts. -- Ree Drummond
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure. -- Moliere
Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields. -- Charles Duhigg
We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure. -- Joel Salatin
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. -- Ezra Pound
Well, I can do certain jobs because smells don't bother me. But that means I'm usually the one at the ranch cleaning up all the manure. -- Bill Pullman
My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York. -- Denis Leary
The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit. -- Robert Grosseteste
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing. -- Theodore Bikel
Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind. -- Beck
They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning. -- Billie Holiday
I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses. -- Eleanor Mondale
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tinker toy for animals and plants. Yet we have developed this necessity to grow food with chemical fertiliser because we have forgotten the magic of manure. -- Joel Salatin
The corncob was the central object of my life. My father was a horse handler, first trotting and pacing horses, then coach horses, then work horses, finally saddle horses. I grew up around, on, and under horses, fed them, shoveled their manure, emptied the mangers of corncobs. -- Paul Engle
China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust. -- Rose George
Money was the manure of politics ... -- Barbara Mertz
Money is like manure; it should be spread around -- Brooke Astor
You know what they say in Arkansas...manure happens. -- Jerry Lawler
Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure. -- Edward Conze
The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship. -- Kedar Joshi
To embrace a woman is to embrace a sack of manure... -- Odo of Cluny
The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. -- Cyril Connolly
Knowledge, like money and muck (manure), serves us best when spread evenly. -- Stuart Aken
Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around. -- Winston Churchill
A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure. -- Emile Zola
If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms. -- Elizabeth Von Arnim
We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
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Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it -- J. R. D. Tata
Beauty and power was commonplace to the dragons as mud and manure to a stable boy. -- Susan Scott
Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product. -- P. T. Barnum
What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity. -- Leo Errera
Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years. -- Noel Gallagher
Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure? -- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. -- Thornton Wilder
She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate. -- Paula Marantz Cohen
The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain. -- Justus von Liebig
City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure. -- Melina Marchetta
I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger. -- Eartha Kitt
If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over. -- Michael Caine
Hello from the gutters of New York City, which are filled with dog manure, vomit, stale wine, urine, and blood. -- David Berkowitz
When will they make a tractor that can furnish the manure for farm fields and produce a baby tractor every spring? -- George Erik Rupp
The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap. -- Octave Mirbeau
Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer. -- J. Paul Getty
No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile. -- George Orwell
Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure. -- Franz Grillparzer
Reading books about gardens is a potent pastime; books nourish a gardener's mind in the same way as manure nourishes plants. -- Mirabel Osler
The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure. -- Alan Kay
The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world. -- Luis Palau
Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap. -- Thomas Golden, Jr.
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts." -- Ezra Pound
Christians are like manure: spread them out and they help everything grow better, but keep them in one big pile and they stink horribly. -- Francis Chan
A new cologne is coming out. It's for cowboys, and it's made from cow's manure. That way the women will be on you like flies! -- Bill Maher
When the spring comes, we will manure the plains of Kosova with the bones of Serbs, for we Albanians have suffered too much to forget. -- Isa Boletini
Relationships are blessings, but they need the manure of love, respect and devotion. A little more would raise expectations and a little less would bring remorse. -- Shilpa Sandesh
Jacob: I've never seen so much manure. Wade: Baggage stock horses. They pack'em in 27 a car. Jacob: how do you stand the smell? Wade: what smell? -- Sara Gruen
I went horseback riding and got a big chunk of horse manure kicked into my face. It has a way of slapping you right back into reality. -- Vanessa Carlton
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Nature does have manure and she does have roots as well as blossoms, and you can't hate the manure and blame the roots for not being blossoms. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Man takes great pains to heap up riches, and they are like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread. -- Matthew Henry
Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell. -- Clint Murchison, Jr.
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world. -- Victor Hugo
All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world." -- Victor Hugo
It seems with progress you gain certain things and you lose certain things. The automobile replaced the horse and buggy but you lost all of that nice manure. -- Carl Andre
By raising tall trees for windbreaks, citrus underneath, and a green manure cover down on the surface, I have found a way to take it easy and let the orchard manage itself! -- Masanobu Fukuoka
I imbue this place with my essence, every stone and every drop. My visit will do wonders for the flowers." Aly propped her chin on her hand. "So does manure," she observed. -- Tamora Pierce
If you have been touched by the success fairy, people think you know why. People think success breeds enlightenment and you are duty-bound to spread around like manure. Fertilize those young minds! -- Meryl Streep
It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul. -- Wayne Dyer
No mockery in the world ever sounds to me as hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. -- Charlotte Bronte
The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically. -- Tom Robbins
Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby. -- Lee Marvin
The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next. -- Cyril Connolly
Soil with a lot of manure in it produces abundant crops; water that is too clear has no fish. Therefore, enlightened people should maintain the capacity to accept impurities and should not be solitary perfectionists. -- Zicheng Hong

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