“We have a strong respect for hierarchy without realizing that her legs are made up of the most fetid mud of human nature.”
Sorin Cerin
“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.”
William Shakespeare
“I made all my generals out of mud.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“He who slings mud generally loses ground.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“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
“Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?”
Marquis De Sade
“Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee.”
