Trough Quotes

• I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

  Graham Chapman

  Mother, Father, Animal

  "Fictional character: Frenchman". "Monty Python and the Holy Grail", 1975.

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• God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a feed trough. ... For just an instant the sky grew luminous with angels, yet who saw the spectacle? Illiterate hirelings who watched the flocks of others, "nobodies" who failed to leave their names.

  Philip Yancey

  Christmas, Kings, Angel

  Philip Yancey (1995). “The Jesus I Never Knew”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• A snake came to my water trough On a hot, hot day, and I in pajamas for the heat, To drink there.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Snakes, Water, Hot

  'Snake' (1923)

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• Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

  Michael Lee-Chin

  Life Is, Linear, Deals

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• Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Self, Devotion, Concern

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• At the end of every diet, the path curves back to the trough.

  Mason Cooley

  Loss, Curves, Path

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  Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspirational, Change, Smile

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• Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude remains: Time has transfigured them into Untruth. The stone finality They hardly meant has come to be Their final blazon, and to prove Our almost-instinct almost true: What will survive of us is love.

  Philip Larkin

  Attitude, Age, Finals

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• I suspect it's because Truman Democrats have been replaced by Gruber Democrats - self-styled elitists who feed lavishly at the public trough and think government should serve them, not the hoi polloi they disdain and deceive.

  Jack Kelly

  Thinking, Government, Self

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• Family farmers are victims of public policy that gives preference to feeding animals over feeding people. This has encouraged the cheap grain policy of this nation and has made the beef cartel the biggest hog at the trough.

  Howard Lyman

  Animal, People, Giving

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• Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dirty, Feet, Mind

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• Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Pigs, Feet, Morality

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• We lived always in the stretch or sag of nerves, either on the crest or in the trough of waves of feeling.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Feelings, Nerves, Wave

  T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.16, e-artnow

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• I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.

  Diogenes

  Children, Drinking, Hands

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• The Democratic and Republican parties, two apparently distinct political entities feeding at the same corporate trough.

  Ralph Nader

  Party, Two, Political

  Ralph Nader (2000). “The Ralph Nader Reader”, p.11, Seven Stories Press

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• What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to Jericho or the cities of the plain - something terrible I mean, son, so that when the people have been through hellfire and the crucible, and have suffered agony enough and grief, they’ll be people again, human beings, not a bunch of smug contented cows rooting at the trough.

  William Styron

  Country, Grief, Mean

  William Styron (1993). “Set this House on Fire”, Vintage

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• A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

  Henry Adams

  Rap, Pigs, Way

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• Numbers have dehumanized us. Over breakfast coffee we read of 40,000 American dead in Vietnam. Instead of vomiting, we reach for the toast. Our morning rush through crowded streets is not to cry murder but to hit that trough before somebody else gobbles our share.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Morning, War, Coffee

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.23, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Walking the streets on winter nights kept him warm, despite the cold nocturnal passions of uprising winds. His footsteps led between trade-marked houses, two up and two down, with digital chimneys like pigs' tits on the rooftops sending up heat and smoke into the cold trough of a windy sky. Stars hid like snipers, taking aim now and again when clouds gave them a loophole. Winter was an easy time for him to hide his secrets, for each dark street patted his shoulder and became a friend, and the gaseous eye of each lamp glowed unwinking as he passed.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Stars, Eye, Passion

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• If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult liberation process we went trough, the one that has distinguished our art, was the freeing of colour, the transition to a painterly spontaneity.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Often Is, Important

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 162), 2002.

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• The United Nations has long recognised that the imagination, ideals and energies of young men and women are vital for the continuing development of the societies in which they live. And since its inception in 1948, AIESEC has contributed to this development by serving as an agent of positive change trough education and cultural exchange.

  Kofi Annan

  Men, Imagination, Long

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• Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

  Jane Pauley

  Feelings, Age, Rising

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• California is going to take themselves off the cliff culturally and economically, fiscally. They are going to be at the trough in Washington wanting a bailout.

  Jim DeMint

  California, Cliffs, Bailouts

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• There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.

  Ben Kingsley

  Assurance, Regard

  "I can do anything" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. January 02, 2001.

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• Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

  Ricky Gervais

  Rain, Climbing, People

  "Fictional character: David Brent". "The Office". Season 2, Episode 6: "Interview", November 04, 2002.

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