Famous quotes containing the word manure:
“All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to believe that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Wheat, sugarcane, chickpeas—all crops—must have manure to grow. Never forget it.”
—Punjabi proverb, trans. by Gurinder Singh Mann.
“The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)