70 Cesspool Quotes

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Famous Cesspool Quotes

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard. - David Gerrold

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard. — David Gerrold

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. - John Madden

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer. — John Madden

Don’t throw away dirty water before you have more clean water. — Danish Proverbs

Water that you must not drink, let it run. — Mexican Proverbs

If you threw a stone into a gutter, it would only spurt filth in your face. — R.K. Narayan

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out. — Tiberius

One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The Sun visits cesspools without being defiled. — Diogenes

You are what you don't poop. — Steven Gundry

Every path hath a puddle. - George Herbert

Every path hath a puddle. — George Herbert

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. — Jacques Yves Cousteau

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. - Aeschylus

By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water. — Aeschylus

Far, far below, red liquid bubbled. Blood? Lava? Evil ketchup? None of the posibilities were good. — Rick Riordan

I watched the piles of feces go up the conveyor belt... They made their way through the machine... A few minutes later I took a long taste of the end result: a glass of delicious drinking water. — Bill Gates

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end. — John Shelby Spong

Short Cesspool Quotes

  • The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles. — Harlan Ellison
  • A grudge is like a cesspool; forgiveness like a flowing river. — Christiane Northrup
  • Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there? — Cesare Pavese
  • And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases. — Plato
  • The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. — Diogenes
  • It is three and a half hours long, four characters wide and a cesspool deep. — John Jay Chapman
  • To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime. — Howard Crosby
  • I think we have such a political cesspool in America right now. — Michael T. Flynn
  • The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool. — C. S. Lewis
  • Git an eyeful of cesspool alley the land of opportunity. — John Dos Passos

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More Cesspool Quotes

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck. — George Sanders

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. — Arthur Conan Doyle

People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht! — David Lee Roth

We are angry about paying the highest income taxes and property taxes in the nation and getting less and less for it. We are angry about our incompetent, dysfunctional government that pays no attention to the desires of the people. We are angry about the cesspool of corruption and conflicts of interests and self-dealing that is Albany. — Carl Paladino

If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely. — Robert Higgs

[The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck. — Erykah Badu

Once upon a time millions applauded and supported Adolf Hitler; ignorant masses often cannot see the simple truths and evidently they do not have the ability to see the very clear ends! The stupidity of the ignorant masses has been proven thousands of times in the history! Each time they follow the wrong leader and in the end fall in the cesspool! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is a danger there - a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all prolong their worthless lives. The spiritual would not avoid the call to something higher. It would be the survival of the least fit. What sort of cesspool may not our poor world become? — Arthur Conan Doyle

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did. — Frank O'Hara

My God, the suburbs! They encircled the city's boundaries like enemy territory and we thought of them as a loss of privacy, a cesspool of conformity and a life of indescribable dreariness in some split-level village where the place name appeared in the New York Times only when some bored housewife blew off her head with a shotgun. — John Cheever

Our conscious motivations, ideas, and beliefs are a blend of false information, biases, irrational passions, rationalizations, prejudices, in which morsels of truth swim around and give the reassurance albeit false, that the whole mixture is real and true. The thinking processes attempt to organize this whole cesspool of illusions according to the laws of plausibility. This level of consciousness is supposed to reflect reality; it is the map we use for organizing our life. — Erich Fromm

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. — Alexander Payne

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. — P. J. O'Rourke

If you can clean up the cesspool of the tax code and give us a pro-growth tax code, that is how you grow the economy. That`s how you take power and money out of Washington and give it back to the people and we are so excited. We have a president [Donald Trump] that is here to work with us in doing that. — Paul Ryan

If you go to places like YouTube, it's a cesspool, and a lot of the comments are really horrifying and misogynist and harassing. — Jessica Valenti

When you look at the Justice Department's report talking about the Ferguson Police Department's rampant pattern of discrimination and its excessive use of force against African-American citizens, it's hard to try to rationalize how this cesspool of racism doesn't spill over onto the individual officers. — Benjamin Crump

How people see the world is often a reflection of how they see themselves. If they think that the world is just a cesspool of lies and deceit, then they themselves may be full of lies and deceit. Watch out for those people who are always telling you just how corrupt the rest of the world is. As the saying goes, 'It takes one to know one.' — David J. Lieberman

Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place. — Thomas Aquinas

Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry. — Jimmy Carter

[The UN should remain in New York] because every country needs a cesspool. And the UN is always interesting as a theater of the absurd. — Ed Koch

Hollywood isn't your cesspool, America. It's your mirror. — Bill Maher

The fall or scrapping of a cultural world puts us all into the same archetypal cesspool, engendering nostalgia for earlier conditions. — Marshall McLuhan

Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs. Splash! There goes Mark Foley! — P. J. O'Rourke

PowerPoint presentations, the cesspool of data visualization that Microsoft has visited upon the earth. PowerPoint, indeed, is a cautionary tale in our emerging data literacy. It shows that tools matter: Good ones help us think well and bad ones do the opposite. Ever since it was first released in 1990, PowerPoint has become an omnipresent tool for showing charts and info during corporate presentations. — Clive Thompson

But there'll be plenty of room on Earth then because right now, what is it?-Only one-fifth of the Earth's surface is land, right? Whereas then there will be no more sea, it'll all be land, seas will be gone. The seas are the World's great septic tanks, its great cesspools, where all the waste of the World drains off into the sea. — David Berg

Over all, many of society's values are a cesspool. — Bernardine Dohrn

Washington's a cesspool of money. — Stewart Udall

Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool. — Eric Schmidt

The Internet is fast becoming a cesspool where false information thrives. — Eric Schmidt

It breaks my heart to find myself within the cesspool of reality TV shows. — Peter Funt

I think the difference the Jimmy Carter presidency and the Obama regime is navet and maliciousness. I think this is purposeful maliciousness. That's why what you're seeing now in this administration. I don't think they care for this country. And I think they're trying to make it into some kind of third-world socialistic cesspool. I think they are willing to get in bed with any dictator or despotic ruler that they see. — Allen West

Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool. ... Brand affinity is clearly hard wired. It is so fundamental to human existence that it's not going away. It must have a genetic component. — Eric Schmidt

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression. — Nicolas Cage

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