Quotes with pipes

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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 the smoker.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.

  Arthur Baer
  American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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• I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
  

  W. C. Fields
  American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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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.

  William E. Vaughan
  American columnist and author (1915 - 1977)
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• 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
  American Educator, Social Activist (1912 - 2002)
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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
  British writer, criticus (1917 - 1993)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• tobacco-pipes
• pipe-smokers
• excellence
• shoddiness
• philosophy
• activity

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