Quotes About Plumbing

C'est une question de tuyauterie, ni plus ni moins.

My kingdom for a flush toilet.

Our word plumbing actually derives from the Latin plumbum, meaning "lead," and that is also why this element's chemical symbol is Pb.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

After all, not even mobsters fixed their kitchen sinks with handguns. They could blow their drains out.

He was made all of copper, so he was coppery-red all over, like a new pipe for the bathroom.

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

The Poisoned Toilet Bowl

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exaulted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy...neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

Parsons used the lavatory, loudly and abundantly. It then turned out that the plug was defective and the cell stank abominably for hours afterwards.

A bad leak? Sure it'd baptize you!

I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day.

I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.

Q: What did one toilet say to the other toilet? A: You look a little flushed.

God bless the aristocracy. May they never learn to do their own plumbing.

If we don't have enough carpenters, plumbers and electricians, or heating, ventilation, air handling and refrigeration techs, there are fewer to construct and maintain the facilities in our healthcare system or build homes for the workers we are trying to attract.

A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

My dad insisted I got a trade. He had a plumbing business. So you are looking at a qualified heating engineer.

Everyone is an atheist until they clog a toilet in someone else's house

I can't tell you how indispensable a bidet is. I have them in all my homes.

So it took me five years because in the interim I have been doing a lot of personal appearances and movies and some television series that went into the plumbing and I stopped writing for a while.