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Definition of Mud

Mud

Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.

To bury in mud.

To make muddy or turbid.

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Mud Quotations

The reason why men do not obey us, is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw

My 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?
Virginia Woolf

He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Life is made up of marble and mud.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
Orson Welles

I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles de Gaulle

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Ross Perot

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

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
Barry Goldwater

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.
Denzel Washington

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
George MacDonald

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

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.
John Madden

Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.
Jesse Ventura

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
Carl Sandburg

When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either.
Leo Burnett

The Devil is like a strainer that separates the mud from the gold.
Carlos Santana

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

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
Ivan Turgenev

It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed.
Morning Star

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

Well, what I try to do is throw as much mud on the wall as I possibly can and just see what sticks, what shines as quirky or more interesting that the others, and I try to cling onto that one, somehow join a link from there to there.
Guy Ritchie

I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.
Karl Pilkington

Truth, which is important to a scholar, has got to be concrete. And there is nothing more concrete than dealing with babies, burps and bottles, frogs and mud.
Jeane Kirkpatrick

The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done?
Bradley Whitford

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it.
Charles Lyell

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.
Teri Garr

Pigs prefer to wallow in clean mud, but if nothing else is available, they will frequently wallow in their own urine, giving rise to the notion that they are dirty animals.
Marvin Harris

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Mud Translations

mud in Danish is dynd
mud in Dutch is slik, modder, slijk, drek
mud in Finnish is loka, lima
mud in French is boue, bourbe, vase
mud in German is Schlamm
mud in Italian is fango
mud in Portuguese is lama, lodo
mud in Spanish is MUD, pecina, barro
mud in Swedish is gyttja, slam, dy

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