Quotes and Sayings About Mud

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

#Advice #Criticism #Mud

Strategy should evolve out of the mud of the marketplace, not in the antiseptic environment of an ivory tower.
-- Al Ries

#Ivory Tower #Towers #Mud

Yes, you live with your feet in the mud and there's no time to be thinking about how you got in or how you're going to get out.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Thinking #Feet #Mud

It is pleasant to notice that the harmony between the naturalists and officers of the "Blake" was not for an instant disturbed during the time they were working in common. Everything in the way of naval routine was sacrificed for the time to the objects of the cruise, and the appearance of the deck and bow of the Blake was often more that of a mud-scow than of a vessel in the service of the United States.
-- Alexander Agassiz

#Ocean #Way #Mud

There is nothing sadder in this world than the waste of human potential. The purpose of evolution is to raise us out of the mud, not have us grovelling in it.
-- Andrew Schneider

#Purpose #World #Mud

You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.
-- Andy Irons

#Mud #Surf #Sometimes

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.
-- Arthur Koestler

#Goal #Mud #Flow

That's what I'm about -- getting engaged. Too many people don't wade in the mud with the politicians.
-- Billy Bragg

#People #Wade #Mud

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
-- Boris Yeltsin

#Sake #Mud #Politician

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

#Mud #Feminine #Covered

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

#Devil #Gold #Mud

I'm actually as common as mud. I'm not particularly well read, or bred. But the way I look... I seem to have this sort of 'aristocratic' demeanor.
-- Charles Dance

#Looks #Way #Mud

We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'
-- Chinua Achebe

#Humanity #Mud #Practicals

The skirts of the gods Drag in our mud. We feel the touch And take it to be a kiss.
-- Christopher Fry

#God #Kissing #Mud

Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!
-- Craig Ferguson

#Heaven #Campaigns #Mud

I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes without doing any productive work or contributing anything to society, my reaction is: “How can I get in on that?
-- Dave Barry

#People #Mud #Sticks

In the 1970′s I made horses out of real mud and sticks. They were, in part, meant to reflect how much a horse is part of his environment. I combined the figure and the ground.
-- Deborah Butterfield

#Horse #Real #Mud

Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well.
-- Denzel Washington

#Rain #Mud #Praying

There's no smoke without mud being flung around.
-- Edwina Currie

#Mud

Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
-- Eugene Delacroix

#Giving #Flesh #Mud

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

#Water #Amusement #Mud

When I was a teenager, I had pimples - oh, God, every time someone looked at my face I thought they were looking at my pimples. I put mud on my face to dry them out, and it worked.
-- Gisele Bundchen

#Teenager #Dry #Mud

Walk through the mud in life, if you ever want to get to the higher ground”
-- Greg Plitt

#Want #Mud #Walks

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.
-- Howard Pyle

#Moon #Mud #Pennies

A messy mortal is my friend. Come walk with me in the mud.
-- Hugh Prather

#Mud #Messy #Walk With Me

If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that.
-- Ice Cube

#Dirty #People #Mud

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

#Stars #Mud

We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC.
-- Jacob Zuma

#School #Want #Mud

When you get in the mud with a pig, you get dirty and the pig gets happy.
-- James Altucher

#Dirty #Pigs #Mud

Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.
-- James Frey

#Water #Waiting #Mud