Dirt Quotes. C.N. Douglas, comp. 1917. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical

C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Dirt


Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place. Lord Palmerston.	1
Dirt has been shrewdly termed “misplaced material.” Victor Hugo.	2
By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance. Dr. Johnson.	3
I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty. W. G. Clark.	4
In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird,—all is there for itself. Only because we think that all things have a relation to us, do they appear justifiable or otherwise. Auerbach.	5
“Ignorance,” says Ajax, “is a painless evil”; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. George Eliot.	6