Manured Quotes

#1. Some brains are barren grounds, that will not bring seed or fruit forth, unless they are well manured with the old wit which is raked from other writers and speakers.

Margaret Cavendish

#2. As the fertilest ground, must be manured, so must the highest flying wit have a Daedalus to guide him.

Philip Sidney

#3. A time will come, when fields will be manured with a solution of glass (silicate of potash), with the ashes of burnt straw, and with the salts of phosphoric acid, prepared in chemical manufactories, exactly as at present medicines are given for fever and goitre.

Justus Von Liebig

#4. The Great don't innovate, they fertilize seeds planted by lackeys, they leave to others the inhaling of the flowers whose roots they've manured. A deceptive memory may be the key to their originality.

Ned Rorem

#5. A James Cagney love scene is one where he lets the other guy live.

Bob Hope

#6. It is impossible to get rid of the bondage of slavery, if we do not start acting as free citizens of our country

Sunday Adelaja

#7. Just in case you're wondering," Gage says, breaking the silence, "this alliance of ours doesn't mean I like you."
"Feeling's mutual." Julian tosses him a disdainful look.

Laura Kreitzer

#8. Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

Edmund Burke

#9. The more closely you look at one thing, the less closely can you see something else.

Werner Heisenberg

#10. Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

Richard Russo

#11. The individual has to awaken his intelligence, not through any form of discipline, resistance, compulsion, coercion, but through freedom.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#12. Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.

Khushwant Singh

#13. All the world is a stage and we are merely players.

William Shakespeare

#14. As pretty as a flower . . . as strong as a weed.

Mia Sheridan

#15. Always, instead of the best, she found herself struggling to make the least-worst decision.

Andrea K. Host