51 Hydrant Quotes

Following is our list of the most famous hydrant quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational hydrant quotes. Hopefully, these hydrant quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your hydrant knowledge!

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Famous Hydrant Quotes

Never stand between a dog and the hydrant. — John Peers

From the rain, straight under the drainpipe. — Polish Proverbs

An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it. — Jules Renard

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

When the well is dry, we know the worth of water. — Benjamin Franklin

Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being. — Nicola Salvi

Quickly fetch the water during the rising tide. — Thai Proverbs

Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world. — Charles MacKay

The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap. — Billy Sunday

The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life. — William Penn

Dripping water hollows out a stone — Ovid

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking. — Kahlil Gibran

When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well. - Japanese Proverbs

When you're dying of thirst it's too late to think about digging a well. — Japanese Proverbs

We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. - English Proverbs

We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry. — English Proverbs

There is water in every lane, so it is OK. - Ian Thorpe

There is water in every lane, so it is OK. — Ian Thorpe

Short Hydrant Quotes

  • Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. — Mitchell Kapor
  • I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place. — Steven Wright
  • You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog. — Alfred Kahn
  • Some days I feel like I'm only the fire hydrant to Westminster dog show. — Bob Beckel
  • The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant. — Jeff Rich
  • A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it. — Frank Miller
  • Sometimes I feel like the fire hydrant looking at a pack of dogs. — William J. Clinton
  • The military was all about hierarchies, who urinated highest on the hydrant — Justin Cronin
  • Whenever my water breaks it'll be like a fire hydrant! — Jessica Simpson

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More Hydrant Quotes

Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time. — Louis J. Freeh

A flirt is like a dipper attached to a hydrant; every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away. — Nathaniel Parker Willis

Once I was walking from The Mercer in New York - because otherwise I don't walk anywhere - and this woman paparazzo who was following me fell over a fire hydrant and her whole tooth went through her lip. I leant over her, saying, 'Are you all right?' and she was still taking pictures. — Kate Moss

Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. — Robert Frost

It was a very intense and stressful situation. There was playing in the Johnny-pump (an opened fire hydrant) and the ice-cream man coming around and all of these games that we'd play, and suddenly it would turn just violent and there would be shootings at 12 in the afternoon on any given day. — Jay-Z

Well I've seen travel in many waysI've traveled in cars and old subwaysBut in Birmingham some people choseTo fly down the street from a fire hose.Doin' some hard travelin'...from hydrants of plenty. — Phil Ochs

I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me. — Richard Brautigan

Some decisions, like opening a fire hydrant to put out a fire, are easy to make. Other decisions, like deciding how to best distribute a drought-limited water supply among urban, rural and recreational uses, require careful deliberation. — Ben Nelson

And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants. — Neil deGrasse Tyson

In the streets of New York between seven and nine in the morning you will see the slow procession of dog and downer proceeding from street to tree to hydrant to trash basket. They are apartment dogs. They are taken out twice a day, and, while it is a cliché, it is truly amazing how owner and dog resemble each other. They grow to walk alike and have the same set of head. — John Steinbeck

I feel like I have a bowling ball sitting on my hoohah! Apparently I have a lot of amniotic fluid, so whenever my water breaks it will be like a fire hydrant! — Jessica Simpson

How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all? — Jonathan Lethem

i held it up, and tried to channel happy dog thoughts toward Cerberus- Alpo commercials, cute little puppies, fire hydrants. — Rick Riordan

Ewwww-eee-wwww. Hey Ash, you vant to suck my blud? (Fang) No, thanks. The last thing I want is to catch parvo from you, or some other freaky dog disease that makes me lift my leg around hydrants. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Reading, for me, is like this: consumptive, pleasing, calming, as much as edifying. It's how I feel after a good dinner. That's why I do it so often: It feels wonderful. The book is mind and I insert myself into it, cover it entire, ear my way through every last slash and dot. That's something you can do with a book, unlike television or movies or the Internet. You can eat it, or mark it, like a dog does on a hydrant. — Tara Bray Smith

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like dogs peeing on fire hydrants. — Margaret Atwood

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