61 Leaky Quotes

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

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Famous Leaky Quotes

The system is always leaking, and we keep having to add water to keep it ahead of the game. — Jim Simons

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

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. — Warren Buffett

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. — John Bunyan

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship. — Benjamin Franklin

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. — Leonard Cohen

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. - Groucho Marx

Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light. — Groucho Marx

A drinker has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. — Thomas Fuller

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

He ran out from under a leaking roof and sat in the rain. — Afghan Proverbs

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

Constant dripping hollows out a stone. — Lucretius

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. — Ray Bradbury

Dripping water hollows out a stone — Ovid

Whenever your preparations for the sea are poor; the sea worms its way in and finds the problems. — Francis Stokes

Short Leaky Quotes

  • Leaky gut syndrome can wreak havoc on our health. — Steven Gundry
  • These genetic vaccines are leaky. — Robert W. Malone
  • A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source. — Arthur Baer
  • If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe. — Hanna Rosin
  • The shelter of excuses has a leaky roof. — Ron Kaufman
  • I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm. — Milton Berle
  • All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. — Joel Spolsky
  • Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink. — Ellen DeGeneres
  • A leaky faucet, a barking dog - those are things you tolerate. — Candace Gingrich-Jones
  • Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip. — John Updike

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More Leaky Quotes

But you, you foolish girl, you have gone home to a leaky castle across the sea to lie awake in linen smelling of lavender, and hear the nightingale, and long for me. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

The longer I have been at this the more I think that lectins are the cause of leaky gut and all diseases. — Steven Gundry

It is better that you live in a one-room garret with a leaky roof, than live in a large house, the mortgage payments of which are causing your colon to turn cancerous! — Stuart Wilde

Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace. — Michelle Bachelet

Love to me is - the final lines in Dante's Paradiso, when he says, "The love that moves the Sun and all the stars" - it's what draws us together, it's why we have leaky margins with each other. It is that sumptuous, sensuous, sensitive quickening that happens when we really know ourselves as love and see ourselves as loving. — Jean Houston

You want a valve that doesn't leak and you try everything possible to develop one. But the real world provides you with a leaky valve. You have to determine how much leakiness you can tolerate. — Arthur Rudolph

The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply. — Dwight L. Moody

Good sex is an all-day affair. You can't treat your wife like a servant and expect her to be eager to sleep with you at night. Your wife's sexual responsiveness will be determined by how willingly you help out with the dishes, the kids' homework, or that leaky faucet that drips throughout the night. — Kevin Leman

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders. — Bernard Rudofsky

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine. — Charles Caleb Colton

The most foolish kind of a book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

[On the Netherlands:] There is not a richer or more carefully tilled garden spot in the whole world than this leaky, springy little country. — Mary Mapes Dodge

Sending money to Washington to have it administered and sent back is like getting a blood transfusion from your right arm to your left arm with a leaky valve. — Ernest Hollings

They told me that I had a leaky valve, which is something that is certainly not life-threatening. It's common and it's something that had I not known about it, would I have lived? Sure. But it's something that I think is important to know, especially as I get older and given that I have heart disease in my family. — Jennie Garth

[We must] deal with all of the contributing factors to gun violence as a whole, because it's like a leaky bucket - if you've got a bucket with six holes shot through it, [and] you plug up five, you've still got a leaky bucket. — Joycelyn Elders

[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient Express, as cold-eyed as a pawnbroker viewing a leaky concertina. — Paul Murray Kendall

I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn't noticed anything up until then.A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes - a very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage. — Al Jarreau

Worry is different from fear. If fear is like a raging fever, worry is a low-grade temperature. It nags at us, simmers in our souls, hovers in the back of our minds like a faint memory. We may fear certain realities, like death; we worry about vague possibilities. Worry distracts us more than paralyzes us. It is like a leaky faucet we never get around to fixing. — Gerald Lawson Sittser

Methinks I am like a man, who having struck on many shoals, and having narrowly escap'd shipwreck in passing a small frith, has yet the temerity to put out to sea in the same leaky weather-beaten vessel, and even carries his ambition so far as to think of compassing the globe under these disadvantageous circumstances. — David Hume

I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel. — George Eliot

There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it. — E. M. Forster

It wasn't what we needed then that was hurting us, it was what we was paying for that we had already used up. The country was just buying gasoline for a leaky tank. Everything was going into a gopher hole and you couldent see where you was going to get any of it back. — Will Rogers

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky. — Spider Robinson

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket — Arthur Melvin Okun

People often ask me, "What's the difference between couplehood and babyhood?" In a word? Moisture. Everything in my life is now more moist. Between your spittle, your diapers, your spit-up and drool, you got your baby food, your wipes, your formula, your leaky bottles, sweaty baby backs, and numerous other untraceable sources-all creating an ever-present moistness in my life, which heretofore was mainly dry. — Paul Reiser

When I was a child, all problems had ended with a single word from my father. A smile from him was sunshine, his scowl a bolt of thunder. He was smart, and generous, and honorable without fail. He could exile a trespasser, check my math homework, and fix the leaky bathroom sink, all before dinner. For the longest time, I thought he was invincible. Above the petty problems that plagued normal people. And now he was gone. — Rachel Vincent

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