When the world was made, the rubbish was sent to Stockport.

-Anonymous
Quoted in Wolfgang Mieder Investigations of Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, Quotations and Cliche¤  s (1984), in turn taken from Notes and Queries (1871).

Intellectually, most people never wash. They never free their minds of the accumulated rubbish of centuries.

-Dudek, Louis
Collected in Notebooks1960^1994 (1994).

If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.

-Jerrold, Douglas William
Quoted in Blanchard Jerrold  The Life and Remains of Douglas Jerrold (1859), ch.14.

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under- labourer in clearing ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge. 514

-Locke,John
  Essay Concerning Human Understanding,'Epistle to the Reader'.

My job, as I see it, has never been to laya tit's egg, but to erupt like a volcano emitting not only flame but a lot of rubbish.

-Grieve
  Letter to George Bruce,1  Jul.

That nothing walks with aimless feet; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete.

-Tennyson
  In Memoriam A.H.H., canto 54, l.5^8.