#gutter

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#looking #some #stars #us

When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

#come #downstairs #gutter #idealists #into

Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris. ↗

— Patti Smith

#gutter #i #maybe #paris

A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness. ↗

— William Graham Sumner

#decline #dissolution #drunkard #fitness #gutter