Quotes of Shovel - somelinesforyou

“ Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. ”

- Unknown

“ I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you. ”

- Nikita Khrushchev

“ Drop the hammer and pick up the shovel. ”

- J. A. Dever

“ The only man who makes money following the races is one who does it with a broom and shovel. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up. ”

- Donald T. Regan

“ Call a spade a spade. ”

- Robert Burton

“ I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade. ”

- Menander

“ Troubles are usually brooms and shovels that smooth the road to the good man's fortune; and many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away hunger. ”

- Basil

“ The world is full of abundance and opportunity, but far too many people come to the fountain of life with a sieve instead of a tank car a teaspoon instead of a steam shovel. They expect little and as a result they get little. ”

- Ben Sweetland

“ A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose. ”

- Marge Piercy
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