Pipes Quotes
77 quotes by 69 authors
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Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.
— Anthony Burgess
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Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of…
— George Eliot
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don't have time to get into mischief.
— Bill Vaughan
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May be the truth is, that one pipe is wholesome, two pipes toothsome, three pipes noisome, four pipes fulsome, five pipes quarrelsome; and that's the…
— Charles Lamb
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Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent?…
— A. E. Housman
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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
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As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure…
— Marcus J. Ranum
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On his method for lighting up: "Nothing special, but I do blunts, cigarellos, pipes, bongs, bowls, I'll smoke out of an old Timberland boot if…
— Devin the Dude
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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,…
— Ella Maillart
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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…
— John Candy
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The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted...…
— Ronald Reagan
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Unless you are political or intellectual, events like the Depression are seen as personal events. We thought of the Depression as something that made the…
— Florynce Kennedy
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Phronimos, possessing practical wisdom . But the only virtue special to a ruler is practical wisdom; all the others must be possessed, so it seems,…
— Aristotle
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He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
— John Ray
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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
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Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that I ever existed…
— Rube Goldberg
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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…
— Hernando Cortes
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A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.
— Arthur Baer
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Every time we are confronted with a new revolution we take to the opium pipes of our own propaganda.
— I F Stone
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At home, when the heating pipes made noises, I imagined a tiny person was in there skipping with a rope. The fantasy world of tiny…
— Willard Wigan
Who Wrote These Pipes Quotes
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