#mud

Life is made up of marble and mud. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#made #marble #mud #up

I argue that the Talmud is about the constant struggle to understand. ↗

— Arthur Hertzberg

#argue #constant #i #struggle #talmud

Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it. ↗

— Alexander Herzen

#cuts #daily #daily life #fish #how

I think people expect mud at festivals, I think you'd be asking for your money back if you didn't get it. ↗

— Peter Hook

#back #expect #festivals #get #i

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars. ↗

— Beck

#look #men #mud #other #out

If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#fasting #god #more #please #praying

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie. ↗

— John le Carre

#dust #like #make #mud #out

I like my women to be feminine, not sliding into tackles and covered in mud. ↗

— Brian Clough

#feminine #i #into #like #mud

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. ↗

— William Congreve

#brain #brown #despair #flags #goes

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#dirt #finds #heap #his #keep