O wombe! O bely! O stynkyng cod Fulfilled of dong and of corrupcioun!

-Chaucer, Geoffrey
  Canterbury  Tales,'The Pardoner's Tale', l.534^5.

It is better to sniff France's dung for a while than eat China's all our lives. 405

-Ho Chi Minh originally NguyenThatThanh
   Attributed. Quoted in  J Facouture Ho Chi-Minh.

Gula carum tributem exigit, sed vilissimum reddit, quia quanto sunt delicaciora cibavia, tanto fetidiora sunt stercora. Gluttony demands a heavy tribute but gives the basest returns: the more delicate the food, the more reeking the dung.

-Pope Innocent III originally Lotario de' Conti di Segni
  De Miseraria Condicionis Humanae, bk.2, ch.20.

   In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaister, and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies.

-Pope, Alexander
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Bathurst', l.229^35.