That dirt made this dust. [ Proverb ]
Sow wheat in dirt and rye in dust. [ Proverb ]
Leave no dirt, you will find no dirt. [ Proverb ]
Dirt is dirtiest upon clean white linen. [ Proverb ]
What serves dirt for, if it do not stink? [ Proverb ]
Leave us in the dirt and find us in the mire. [ Proverb ]
Scandal will rub out like dirt when it is dry. [ Proverb ]
If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold! [ Charles Lamb ]
You need not get a golden pen to write upon dirt. [ Proverb ]
Every man must eat a peck of dirt before he dies. [ Proverb ]
Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material." [ Victor Hugo ]
I stout and you stout, who shall carry the dirt out? [ Proverb ]
He that flings dirt at another dirties himself most. [ Proverb ]
Cast no dirt into the well that hath given you water. [ Proverb ]
Gold can gild a rotten stick, and dirt sully an ingot. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place. [ Lord Palmerston ]
Gold lies deep in the mountain, but dirt on the highway. [ German Proverb ]
You may keep wool till it is dirt, and flax till it is silk. [ Proverb ]
He that falls in the dirt, the longer he lies the dirtier he is. [ Proverb ]
Gold and silver were mingled with dirt till avarice parted them. [ Proverb ]
He that falls into the dirt, the longer he stays there the fouler he is. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]
By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a greater distance. [ Dr. Johnson ]
I confess I could never see any good reason why dirt should always be a necessary concomitant of poverty. [ W. G. Clark ]
Ignorance,
says Ajax, is a painless evil;
so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it. [ Mrs. Marian Lewes Cross (pen name George Eliot) ]
Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them. [ Seneca ]
Pride is like the beautiful acacia, that lifts its bead proudly above its neighbor plants - forgetting that it too, like them, has its roots in the dirt. [ Bovee ]
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 ]
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they will appear to as much disadvantage, and be as ill received, as your person, though ever so well proportioned, would if dressed in rags, dirt, and tatters. [ Chesterfield ]
He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, Dust to dust,
some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the others, I'll be waiting for you in heaven - with a gun.
[ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]