Groucho Marx
Actor, Comedian, Writer
"If the garbage man calls, tell him we don't want any."
Garbage quotes
Garbage
117 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Mooji
Spiritual Teacher
"As far as the search for truth is concerned, 98% of our thinking is rubbish. The remaining 2% is garbage. Throw it all out and be empty! Truth cannot be caught by intellect alone - grace is needed."
Samuel Fuller
Film Director
"If a story doesn't give you a hard-on in the first couple of scenes, throw it in the goddamned garbage."
Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Data is like garbage. You'd better know what you are going to do with it before you collect it."
Miguel Angel Ruiz
Author, Spiritual Teacher
"...Nothing that your partner does is personal. Your partner is dealing with her own garbage. If you don't take it personally, it will be so easy for you to have a wonderful relationship with your partner"
Explore further
Topics related to Garbage
Browse quotes that often appear alongside garbage — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Garbage quotes (page 1 of 6)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage."
Read quote
16 likes
"Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage."
Read quote
12 likes
"I find beauty almost everywhere. Now more and more I find almost everything beautiful. That is why I have great difficulty in throwing away things because I think they are quite beautiful. Even the garbage, but I have to throw that away!"
Read quote
11 likes
"The only thing high-definition television will do is provide sharper images of the garbage."
Read quote
6 likes
"In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010."
Read quote
6 likes
"I never liked the Beatles. I thought they were garbage."
Read quote
6 likes
"Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument."
Read quote
5 likes
"Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump."
Read quote
5 likes
"Where is the good will in the thought, I was going to throw this in the garbage, do you want to wear it?"
Read quote
3 likes
"The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of the cosmos. If you want a good mythical story it would be the life of Socrates."
Read quote
3 likes
"Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life."
Read quote
3 likes
"Maybe she thought the garbage and rocks in your head were interesting. But finally, garbage is garbage and rocks are rocks."
Read quote
3 likes
"If you listen to the radio for a whole hour there's maybe one decent song. The rest is mass-produced garbage"
Read quote
3 likes
"I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so."
Read quote
3 likes
"I have always been interested in garbage: What it says about us. What in there embarrasses us, and what we can't bear to part with. Where it goes and how much of it there is. How it endures. What it might be like to work with it every day."
Read quote
3 likes