“I can't believe that our body, composed as it is of mud and shit and equipped with instincts lower than those of the pig or the crab-louse, contains anything pure and immaterial”
Flaubert, Gustav
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.”
Charles Dudley Warner
“I honestly can't believe how people can think they can do dirt and not get dirty. And for those slinging mud ...take a look at your hands.”
Karen E. Quinones Miller
“In the colonies, an actress is considered something lower than a prostitute, and only slightly higher than a pig.”
R. Balkey
Passion's Disguise
“Women have childbearing equipment. To choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weight lifter. ”
Betty Rollin
“...I'm as happy as a pig in mud, but I would have normally been as horrible, angry, and sad as a pig turned into bacon.”
Aquila Robinson
Septic Zombie - A Short Story