In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them
Thank heaven Election Day is over. No more campaign ads, no more mud-slinging, no more candidates pretending they're straight. It's over!
We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC.
We Californians are constantly accused of not having seasons, but we do. We have fire, flood, mud, and drought.
It's a treat to beat your feet on the Mississippi mud.
Who among us is not thinking about divorce, except for a few tiny-minded stick-in-the-muds who don't count?
Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!
Love is the lotus, lust is the mud the lotus arises out of.
Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good, And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.
The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.
I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.
Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.
From the drawing-room window I see pass almost daily an old gentleman with white hair, a firm step, broad shoulders, healthy pink skin, a sunny smile - always singing to himself as he goes - a happy, rosy-cheeked old fellow, with a rosy-cheeked mind I should like to throw mud at him.
I don't care what you do, I just don't want to be a mud hippie like you. [From 1994 woodstock]
Life is made up of marble and mud.
Say you're working for a big overseas aid organization. You can't leave home in a Mercedes Benz, travel 80 kilometers to work in a great concrete structure where there are diesel engines thundering in the basement just to keep it cool enough for you to work in, and plan mud huts for Africa! You can't get the mud huts right if you haven't got things right where you are. You've got to get things right, working for you, and then go and say what that is.
One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.
You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are.
Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down. '