Dunghill Quotes

#1. Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.

John Heywood

#2. Even innocent Adam is liker to forget God in a paradise, than Joseph in a prison, or Job upon a dunghill(376)[.]

Richard Baxter

#3. He saw a lawyer killing a viper on a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind of Cain and his brother Abel.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#4. For us the national flag is a rag to be planted on a dunghill. There are only two fatherlands in the world: that of the exploited and that of the exploiters.

Benito Mussolini

#5. Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.

Michel De Montaigne

#6. In reality, while we aim for excellence, we're always living on somebody's dunghill.

Jo Walton

#7. The literary publishers were the Lords of Culture, the master parasites sitting on top of this swarming dunghill.

Jonathan Galassi

#8. Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.

Richard Aldington

#9. Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

James Joyce

#10. Life is a dunghill, and I'm the cock that gets to crow on it.

Ernest Hemingway,

#11. Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Caleb Colton

#12. Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

#13. Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

Thomas Paine

#14. There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.

Reginald Horace Blyth

#15. Have you heard of Job who was made holy on a dunghill, O my soul?

Sophronius Of Jerusalem

#16. The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.

John Lyly

#17. A machine condemned to devour books and then throw them , in a changed form , on the dunghill of history .

Karl Marx

#18. When I was having my hair and make-up done backstage at a fashion show, I would sneak in a copy of Dostoevsky and read it inside a copy of Elle or Vogue. But it would be pretentious of me to say I was more intelligent than the other supermodels.

Carla Bruni

#19. There's this thing love stories always forget to mention. That love isn't a constant thing. Sometimes it changes, other times it fades completely. Sometimes you have to fall in love twice to truly understand it.

R.K. Ryals

#20. Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

Calvin Coolidge

#21. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy" (Psalm 103:8).

John Goetsch

#22. Money is important yes, but not the most important. I don't need money to smile or breathe. I would still be breathing if all my money disappeared tomorrow.

Aeriel Miranda

#23. It's not good for you to keep everything inside. I know this is hard. And the next two or three months or so are going to be very difficult. Keeping everything bottled up inside you isn't going to help you heal.

Anonymous