The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected. — William Makepeace Thackeray
From the rain, straight under the drainpipe. — Polish Proverbs
Bend color names which should be made of neon or copper tubing. Place an object on a surface - trace the object - then bend the object - leaving some part of it attached. — Jasper Johns
The only way to keep a broken vessel full is to keep it always under the tap. — Billy Sunday
Pressure can burst a pipe, or pressure can make a diamond. — Robert Horry
If a bamboo tube makes a loud sound, it is empty. — Filipino Proverbs
The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying! — Rene Magritte
Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend. — Bruce Lee
Men are like bagpipes – no sound comes from them until they are full. — Irish Proverbs
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid! — Bill Watterson
The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center. — William H. Whyte
Short Pipe Quotes
On land, on sea, at home abroad, I smoke my pipe and worship God. — Johann Sebastian Bach
Racing is dangerous, but I've been in a lot worse situations as a pipe fitter. — Neil Bonnett
I don't drink water. Have you seen the way it rusts pipes? — W. C. Fields
Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda. — I. F. Stone
If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game. — Chris Rock
The pipe marks the point at which the orangutan ends and man begins. — Ben Jonson
The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober. — Eugene O'Neill
Given the choice between a woman and a cigar, I will always choose the cigar. — Groucho Marx
Remember, if you smoke after sex you're doing it too fast. — Woody Allen
The punt returner got smacked like Nancy Kerrigan's knee on souvenir pipe night. — Dennis Miller
Pipe Image Quotes
Smoking Pipe Quotes
Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica. — Abraham Lincoln
Hey, I stopped smoking cigarettes. Isn't that something? I'm on to cigars now. I'm on to a five-year plan. I eliminated cigarettes, then I go to cigars, then I go to pipes, then I go to chewing tobacco, then I'm on to that nicotine gum — John Candy
I don't know how it started but someone must have noticed I was always chewing tobacco or smoking a pipe. — Hank Sauer
Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar. — Mark Twain
Brothers, we must be united; we must smoke the same pipe; we must fight each other's battles; and more than all, we must love the Great Spirit. — Tecumseh
They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop. — Mignon McLaughlin
Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking? — Arlo Guthrie
There's something luxurious about having a girl light your cigarette. In fact, I got married once on account of that. — Harold Robbins
If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral. — George Burns
Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there. — Dennis McKenna
Us Pipe Quotes
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen. — Ella Maillart
To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” Piper leaned over the console. “Are you sure they’re Roman?” Leo rolled his eyes. “No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they’re Roman! — Rick Riordan
It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves. — Rudy Rucker
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober. — Eugene O'Neill
Let us, above all, be clear that, without a convincing program of debt relief to start the new millennium, our objective of halving world poverty by 2015 will be only a pipe dream. — Kofi Annan
I long to create something
that can't be used to keep us passive:
I want to write
a script about plumbing, how every pipe
is joined
to every other. — Adrienne Rich
I carry two traditional pipes and I sing my songs and pray that us as human beings treat each other with respect. So when it came to trying to portray a connection on screen, that's what you see. — Adam Beach
You mean you don’t know? (Wulf) No. In fact, I’m thinking right now that one, if not both of us, needs to put down the crack pipe and start this night over. (Cassandra) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: "I seen 'em myself!" he said fiercely. — C. S. Lewis
Bagpipe Quotes
Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe. — Lee Trevino
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig. — Alfred Hitchcock
How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet. — Oliver Herford
Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine. — William Shakespeare
The reason I'm patriotic about Scotland is because I think it's been dealt a really hard hand. It's marketed the world over as . . . haggis . . . bagpipes. But no one ever puts anything back into it. — Alexander McQueen
When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both. — Jack Finney
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance. — Thomas Beecham
Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe. — Brother Dave Gardner
Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion. — Scottish Proverbs
Peace Pipe Quotes
Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits. — Evander Holyfield
To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace — Vincent Van Gogh
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much. — James A. Garfield
In our culture, the Native Americans, when two strangers come together. You know what we do in our culture? We smoke the peace pipe. — Tatanka
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. — Knut Hamsun
Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation. — Zebulon Pike
Water Pipe Quotes
Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water passes through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering it over and applying it to our hearts. — George Muller
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. — John W. Gardner
The second means of attraction which He used is Emptiness, as we see when we place one end of a hollow pipe in water, and draw up it by suction; the water runs up the stem to the mouth, because the emptiness of the pipe, from which the air has been drawn, draws the water to itself. — Meister Eckhart
I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes. — W. C. Fields
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. — Kurt Vonnegut
Religion, like water, may be free, but when they pipe it to you, you've got to help pay for piping. And the Piper! — Abigail Van Buren
An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. — Hernan Cortes
Water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
I was cutting and threading pipe in the tunnels to get water into the shower rooms for athletics. I was repairing old metal windows, fixing cement walls where rain was coming through, and drying out the maple gym floors in hopes of removing the warping. — Tom Baker
An abundant supply of excellent water, forming a volume equal in bulk to the human body, is conveyed by one of these pipes, and distributed about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes. — Hernando Cortes
Exhaust Pipe Quotes
Hear about the Californian terrorist that tried to blow up a bus? Burned his lips on the exhaust pipe. He can take his'n and beat your'n, then he can take your'n and beat his'n. — Bum Phillips
There's a little exhaust pipe leaking gasoline, and that gasoline is how good your music is, the gasoline is how you have relationships with people. — Gucci Mane
He (David Beckham) does have a huge one, though. He does. You can see it in the advert. It is all his. It is like a tractor exhaust pipe! — Victoria Beckham
You see my next door neighbour worships exhaust pipes, he's a catholic converter. — Tim Vine
A Polish terrorist was sent to blow up a car. He burned his mouth on the exhaust pipe! — Henny Youngman
Pipeline Quotes
Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me! — Natasha Henstridge
Now that the Nordstream pipelines are gone it's worth thinking about how a deindustrialisation of Europe via permantly high energy prices. — Philip Pilkington
I mean, our primary businesses in wholesale pipelines, utilities, retail, were all doing extremely well. — Kenneth Lay
Is it in our national interest to overheat the planet? That's the question Obama faces in deciding whether to approve Keystone XL, a 2,000-mile-long pipeline that will bring 500,000 barrels of tar-sand oil from Canada to oil refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. — Jeff Goodell
That's one component: rather than creating job-training pipelines that put these kids at the back of the line for the last century's pollution-based jobs, we need to be creating opportunities for them to be at the front of the line for the new clean and green jobs. — Van Jones
The Keystone pipeline will spew a massive amount of carbon pollution into our fragile atmosphere. It should be stopped. — Jill Stein
Our goal is to continue to build the pipeline to fight all aspects of disease for all forms of dementia. — Vivek Ramaswamy
From Burma’s west coastline, China has built natural gas and oil pipelines linking the Bay of Bengal up into southwest China — China’s way of reducing its nervous reliance on the Strait of Malacca. — Tim Marshall
Keep your sales pipeline full by prospecting continuosly.Always have more people to see than you have time to see them . — Brian Tracy
And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary. — Graeme Murphy
The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth. — John Vianney
Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off. — Ewan McGregor
When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower. — Dale Chihuly
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto. — W. Clement Stone
My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak. — Saul
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. — Jerome K. Jerome
I'm not trying to sell pipe dreams to people. I'm not giving them some fake utopia. I'm not telling them it's easy. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But you don't fight the fights you can win, you fight the fights that need fighting. That's the most important part. — Immortal Technique
A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. — P. G. Wodehouse
Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way. — Hugh Howey
Clouds of insects danced and buzzed in the golden autumn light, and the air was full of the piping of the song-birds. Long, glinting dragonflies shot across the path, or hung tremulous with gauzy wings and gleaming bodies. — Arthur Conan Doyle
Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say. He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day. — Jack Nelson
...I leaped headlong into the Sea, and thereby have become more acquainted with the Soundings, the quicksands, and the rocks, than if I had stayed upon the green shore, and piped a silly pipe, and took tea and comfortable advice. — John Keats
My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company. — Larry Page
ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear. — Gerard Manley Hopkins
All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way. — Hunter S. Thompson
I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form. — Winston Churchill
Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues." — P. J. O'Rourke
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