Quotes:The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's
mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was. Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction.
View quotes by Bernard MalamudA novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up
mud of the road (Le rouge et le noir)
View quotes by Stendhal (henri Beyle)An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a
mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
View quotes by George Bernard ShawHe who slings
mud generally loses ground.
View quotes by Adlai StevensonIn our country, true teams rarely exist . . . social barriers and personal ambitions have reduced athletes to dissolute cliques or individuals thrown together for mutual profit . . . Yet these rugby players. with their
muddied, cracked bodies, are struggling to hold onto a sense of humanity that we in America have lost and are unlikely to regain. The game may only be to move a ball forward on a dirt field, but the task can be accomplished with an unshackled joy and its memories will be a permanent delight. The women and men who play on that rugby field are more alive than too many of us will ever be. The foolish emptiness we think we perceive in their existence is only our own
View quotes by Victor Cahn Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the
mud, and one the stars. (A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts)
View quotes by Frederick LangbridgeAn adventure may be worn as a
muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other.
View quotes by Norma ShearerMarriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a
muddy horse pond.
View quotes by Thomas Love PeacockHe who slings
mud generally loses ground.
View quotes by Adlai E StevensonI could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a
mud puddle.
View quotes by Barry GoldwaterWhat I am trying to do is to un
muddle the metaphysical.
View quotes by Dr Wayne DyerYou can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the
mud.
View quotes by George MacDonaldWe grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that
mud will give you a perfect complexion.
View quotes by Zelda FitzgeraldDo not suffer life to stagnate; it will grow
muddy for want of motion: commit yourself again to the current of the world.
View quotes by Samuel JohnsonMy own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in
mud. And why? What's this passion for?
View quotes by Virginia WoolfLife was a damned
muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.
View quotes by F Scott FitzgeraldFar too many relied on the classic formula of a beginning, a
muddle, and an end.
View quotes by Philip LarkinA beginning, a
muddle, and an end [on the classic formula for a novel]
View quotes by Philip LarkinAn illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a
muddlehead at the same time
View quotes by Karl KrausAn illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a
muddlehead at the same time
View quotes by Karl KrausKnowing, what all experience serves to show, No
mud can soil us but the
mud we throw
View quotes by James Russell LowellWhen you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of
mud either.
View quotes by Leo BurnettMany fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow
muddy as they grow large
View quotes by Jean-Antoine Petit-SennIt's plot is designed to drag the reputation of our nation through the
mud [on the wind that shakes the barley]
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