Manure
To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance.
Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance, as the contents of stables and barnyards, dung, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc.
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Manure Quotations
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Ezra Pound
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Francis Bacon
They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
Billie Holiday
Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.
J. Paul Getty
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
David Herbert Lawrence
He who follows his lessons tastes a profound peace, and looks upon everybody as a bunch of manure.
Moliere
Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind.
Beck
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.
Theodore Bikel
Everything that Bush touches turns to manure in public policy.
Alec Baldwin
The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.
Robert Grosseteste
Manure Translations
manure in Dutch is mest
manure in French is fumier, engrais
manure in Latin is fimus
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