Top 104 Sewer Quotes & Sayings

The fact that there is no such thing as a perfect anti-sepsis does not mean that one might as well do brain surgery in a sewer.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.

I was down in the sewer with some little lover.

As we say in the sewer, if you're not prepared to go all the way, don't put your boots on in the first place.

The candidacy of Donald Trump is the open sewer of American conservatism.

There's two kinds of dirty - dirty and sewer-dirty. Danny Ferry is sewer-dirty and has been ever since he was at Duke.

That conversation... was as dirty as a sewer! It is not enough for you to take no part in it. You must show your repugnance for it strongly!

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.

I've always made my own clothes since I was a little girl. I was a terrible sewer, but I was always cutting and customising.

Once you start doing something bad, then it's easy to take the next step - and in the end, you're a moral sewer.

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

Junk is the ideal product... the ultimate merchandise. No sales talk necessary. The client will crawl through a sewer and beg to buy.

And Annie showed me how ailanthus trees grow under subway and sewer gratings, stretching toward the sun, making shelter in the summer, she said, laughing, for the small dragons that live under the streets.

We got a right to climb out of the sewer and live like other people. We could start from scratch. Make every minute count twice for the one we lost.

To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage.

Elsewhere in Italy is the lovely city of Venice, which each year attracts millions of visitors despite the fact that it is basically an enormous open sewer.

The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.

Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.

History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.

So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.

What a chimaera then is man, what a novelty, what a monster, what chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, yet an imbecile earthworm; depository of truth, yet a sewer of uncertainty and error; pride and refuse of the universe. Who shall resolve this tangle?

Woman is a temple built over a sewer.

A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

Sewer rats are really gross.

A tree root won't get into your sewer line unless there's something already wrong with your sewer line. I know most people don't want to hear that, but it's true

As soon as you sit down to write about something you are pressing your nose deeper into the sewer of facts.

Life is like a sewer: what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Remember when Japan was cool? We used to run around with 'Mr. Roboto' on our Walkmans, 'The Karate Kid' in our Betamaxes and wore T-shirts embossed with the characters for 'storm sewer' and 'dishwasher.'

And my mouth is not a sewer, although some people may think it is.

I am a good sewer. My mother taught me how to sew.

We need a national infrastructure bank to rebuild our crumbling highways and water and sewer systems, thereby putting additional people back to work.

I worked three summers putting in sewer pipe and guardrail on the road in Ohio.

I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.

Feeding plants to animals then eating the animals is like filtering water through a sewer then drinking it.

Moammar Gadhafi was found hiding in a storm sewer with a gold-plated gun. That's me in retirement, ladies and gentlemen.

State and federal studies indicate that thousands of water and sewer systems may be too old to function properly.

Think of the millions of young men who died fighting for democracy. We spit on their graves when we let democracy slip away into the sewer of illegal money.

All philanthropy — no age has seen more of it than our own — is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.

"Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it." It's always seemed to me that this is precisely the sort of dynamic, positive thinking that we so desperately need today in these trying times of crisis and universal brouhaha.

If you need someone to come out of the sewer with a wire you don't hire someone who needs laborious collective instruction. You let someone do his job, whether he's a focus puller or a surgeon.

One goal of the Clean Water Act of 1972 was to upgrade the nation's sewer systems, many of them built more than a century ago, to handle growing populations and increasing runoff of rainwater and waste.

In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe.

The sewer is the conscience of the city.

The sea is the universal sewer.

Trump might have a mouth like an open sewer, but at least he says something.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

It is from the midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs up and carries fertility to the whole world. From this foul drain pure gold flows forth.

As we say in the sewer, time and tide wait for no man.

An immaterial but visible being that inhabited the air when the air was an element and before it was fatally polluted with factory smoke, sewer gas and similar products of civilization.

I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.

Wal-Mart is the sewer pipe through which good jobs are being flushed.

For three months, when I was 23 years old, I worked as a clerk at Wandsworth Sewer.

Look at the commercial and industrial development that is going on along the 101. A lot of the infrastructure - the sewer lines and drainage that make development possible - was put in during the freeway construction.

All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more endurable to passers-by, but it does not hinder the infection in the sewer from spreading.

God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow.

I'm not a professional sewer, so I just go to YouTube and figure it out and I experiment but that's the fun part of it. I love watching. Seeing fabric transform into my gear is just a feeling of satisfaction.

He'd (Yogi Berra) fall in a sewer and come up with a gold watch.

Joseph Bazalgette created a sewer system which he originally sized for London's needs of the time - he then doubled it to anticipate the future beyond. These are the qualities that I admire.