Top 133 Manure Quotes & Sayings

If you're a gardener you don't need a gym. [...] You're always carrying large sacks of manure all over.

Money is like manure: if you don't spread it around, nothing grows.

You know what they say in Arkansas...manure happens.

Dallas, is it remotely possible for you to carry on a conversation that's not loaded down with manure?

Money is like manure. It stinks when you pile it; it grows when you spread it

[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.

Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around.

Money was the manure of politics.

We need to respect the fact that cows are herbivores, and that does not mean feeding them corn and chicken manure.

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.

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.

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.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

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.

The tree of research must be fed from time to time with the blood of bean-counters, for it is its natural manure.

What do I really think? What do I believe in, without the horse manure?

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

She's magnificent," Radius said, smiling proudly as he vaulted the steps and followed Aphrodite. "I can think of a lot of m words that she could be. Magnificent isn't one of them," Stark grumbled. "Mental and mean pop into my head," I said. "Manure pops into mine," Stark said. "Manure?" "I think she's full of shot, but it's too many words and doesn't start with an m, so that's as close as I could get," he said.

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.

Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up-never. That is a most gloomy thing for contemplation; it's like manure. Just as manure fertilizes the plants and so on, so the contemplation of death and the acceptance of death is very highly generative of creating life. You'll get wonderful things out of that.

I grew up on a farm - I know the smell of horse manure. It does smell better than pig manure.

What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

Unable to function as plants, we must serve as manure.

The bushes of love are blossomed through the manure of hardship.

Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

If you're standing in the manure pile, it's somebody's job to mention the stink.

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

What's a good metaphor for a Harvard student? A talking, gold-plated pile of manure, wearing a fleece.

Money is like manure. It's most effective when it's spread around widely.

Rumors and Manure both get spread around but only one is beneficial

You could say that as I've gotten more mature, I've acquired more manure.

We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.

You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

Money is like manure, you don't have to spread it around, you can just sell it to Potash Corp as fertilizer.

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.

Grief is like manure, if you spread it out it fertilizes, if you leave it in a big pile it smells like crap.

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.

I already have a plan." Celie said, raising her hand as she would with her tutor. "Do you?" Rolf's eyes gleamed. "What is it?" "I don't think you'll like it, Lilah." Celie apologized straightaway. "It involves manure...a great deal of manure." Rolf started to laugh again.

All sorts of dung and compost contain some matter which, when mixed with the soil, ferments therein; and by such ferment dissolves, crumbles, and divides the earth very much. This is the chief and almost only use of dung. ... This proves, that its (manure) use is not to nourish, but to dissolve, i.e., divide the terrestrial matter, which affords nourishment to the Mouths of vegetable roots. His underestimate of the value of manure.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

I emptied the trash and wiped down tables. But my job that I remember the most was picking up horse manure for the Electrical Parade.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

Who could deny that our Austria is richer than any other country? As the saying goes: "We have money like manure.

A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure.

Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.

Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.

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.

It stank pretty bad, of course: manure was caked all over the wagon. But we were free. Right then I was elated with a sense of how faithful God is to his promises; I was free, and I was smiling joyfully on a manure wagon. As we ambled along, I laughed to myself when I thought of God's sense of humor in delivering us that way. Even today, the smell of manure reminds me of freedom.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Many cows are fed a high-protein diet, which creates a more liquid manure that is easier to spray on fields.

Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.

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!