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

- George MacDonald

I made all my generals out of mud.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

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

- Morning Star

It's great to be able to just go with an idea and not have 10 people in a room telling me why I can't write in a huge mud slide at a school function with 50 kindergartners running around.

- Maria Semple

I was at Woodstock. In the mud.

- Louis Gossett, Jr.

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

- Lance Loud

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

I have become an adjective. There is something called a Rovian-style of campaigning and it's meant as an insult. One columnist said it consists mainly of throwing mud until it sticks. One prominent blogger described the elements of a textbook Rovian race as fear-based, smear-based and anything goes.

- Karl Rove

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

- Johnny Rivers

An elephant always puts his foot into the hole which another elephant's foot has made so that a frequented track is nothing but a series of pits filled with mud and water.

- Isabella Bird

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

- Adlai E. Stevenson

As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

- Dwayne Johnson

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

- Denzel Washington

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

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

- Carlos Santana

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

My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commercial where I got to pour mud all over Barbie dolls and watch the heads pop off. It was so exciting, a lot of fun.

- Brie Larson

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

- Brian Clough

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

The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.

- Blake Shelton