Quotes of Excrement - somelinesforyou

“ The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin. ”

- George Wither

“ Corpses are more fit to be thrown out than is dung. ”

- Heraclitus

“ The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. ”

- D. H. Lawrence

“ Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. ”

- Zen Saying
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