Mud Quotes

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Why, Reason

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw

Bad, Battle, Soul

Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in his compassion raised me up and exalted me very high and placed me on the top of the wall.
Saint Patrick

Deep, Before, Compassion

I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Orson Welles

Today, Teach, Major

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Ross Perot

Politics, War, Rules

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
Virginia Woolf

Passion, Brain, Why

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater

War, Made, Month

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Carl Sandburg

Wants, Eagle, Soar

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
Denzel Washington

Rain, Deal, Pray

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Leo Burnett

May, Stars, Won

Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life, Made, Marble

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
George MacDonald

Live, Deep, Water

He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Ground, Loses, Generally

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
Ivan Turgenev

Stars, Sit, Reach

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles de Gaulle

Cannot, Her, She

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Joseph Conrad

Keep, Butterfly, Dirt

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.
John Podhoretz

Politics, While, President

I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.
Karl Pilkington

Good, Bad, Weather

We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
David Suzuki

Nature, Society, Children

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
Carlos Santana

Devil, Gold, Separates

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
Jesse Ventura

Humor, Sense, Head

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud.
Brian Clough

Women, Feminine, Covered

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.
John le Carre

Writing, Street, Walking

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.
Karl Rove

Said, Become, Insult

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
John Madden

Bad, Team, Defense

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.
Teri Garr

Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.
Guy Ritchie

Try, Others, Throw

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

Truth, Important, Nothing

The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
Jose Marti

Freedom, Win, Liberty

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