The smell was that of a sewer under an abattoir.

“It's amazing when you come to think of it how the human spirit seems to blossom in the shadow of the abattoir!”

— Malcolm Lowry

“Justice without compassion isn't justice; it's an abattoir.”

— Amos Oz

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…

— Thomas J. Hylton

“I dragged Meg toward the sewer (because that’s what friends are for)”

— Rick Riordan

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

— Tom Lehrer

“There's rolling the dice, and there's rolling them into the sewer.”

— Phil Gaimon

We have managed to acquire $13 trillion of debt on our balance sheet. In my view we have nothing to show for it. We…

— Michael Bennett

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

— John Madden

Do you not yet understand, that whatsoever enters in at the mouth, goes into the belly, and is cast out into the sewer? -Matthew 15:17

— Bible

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

— Nick Nolte

“The sewer system is a form of welfare state. It’s a government funnel to the sea.”

— Don DeLillo

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

— George Carlin

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

— Sandi Toksvig

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…

— William Monahan

You are so full of shit that the city should charge your mouth a sewer tax.

— Anonymous