“ We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it. Mignon Mclaughlin Journalist
“ The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love. Mignon Mclaughlin Journalist
“ Recall that whatever lofty things you might accomplish today, you will do them only because you first ate something that grew out of the dirt. Barbara Kingsolver Novelist
“ A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins. Charles Lamb Writer
“ If we had reverence for our life, our life would take at once religious form. But as it is, in our filthy irreverence, it remains a disgusting slough, where each one of us goes so thoroughly disguised in dirt that we are all alike and indistinguishab D. H. Lawrence Novelist
“ If you want to make something dirt cheap, make it out of dirt–preferably dirt that is locally sourced. Donald Sadoway Professor
“ Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat. Hedy Lamarr Actress
“ Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place. Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston Former Foreign Secretary