(135 quotes found)
“I made all my generals out of mud.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“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
“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
“Mud not the fountain that gave drink to thee.”
“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
“He who slings mud generally loses ground.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“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
“Clay. It's rain, dead leaves, dust, all my dead ancestors. Stones that have been ground into sand. Mud. The whole cycle of life and death.”
Martine Vermeulen
“Don't pray for rain if you are going to complain about the mud.”
Proverb
“But in the mud and scum of things, There always, something sings”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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