50 Plumbing Quotes That Will Make You Appreciate The Modern Convenience

These plumbing quotes are perfect for those who enjoy home repair projects or professional contractors.

In basic terms, plumbing brings clean water into your home or business and takes wastewater out of your home or business.

Efficient and effective plumbing allows us to be more hygienic by providing clean water to wash our bodies, clean our teeth, and even flush our waste.

Most people take plumbing for granted unless they are having an issue with their plumbing because that’s when you realize how important it is to your everyday life.

Remember that whether you are washing yourself, your dishes, or your clothes, you can thank plumbing.

Take a look at these plumbing quotes to learn more about this modern convenience.

Best Plumbing Quotes

Here are some of the best quotes for and about plumbing.

1. “If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber.” — Albert Einstein

2. “Plumbers are the superheroes of the trades.” — Jeff Williams

3. “Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.” — Spencer Tracy

4. “A good plumber is like a good lawyer. You don’t need one until you really need one.” — David Baldacci

5. “Plumbing is one of the most important and necessary services that people rely on.” — Bill Howe

6. “An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.” — John Gardner

7. “More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.” — Andy Rooney

8. “Steamfitter, pipefitter, electrician, mechanic, and plumber. I wanted to do those things. But it just didn’t come easy.” — Mike Rowe

9. “If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.” — James P. Gorman

10. “When it comes to plumbing, there is no such thing as a simple mistake.” — Katherine Applegate

Funny Plumbing Quotes

Here are a few plumbing quotes to make you smile.

11. “When you’re a plumber, you know your shit.” — George Carlin

12. “I’m not sure cavemen had plumbers. They probably just used a hole.” — Joelle Carter

13. “My plumbing is no one’s business but my own.” — Peter O’Toole

14. “A plumber is the only guy I know who can take a leak and fix it at the same time.” — Rick Pitino

15. “My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.” — Colin Firth

16. “I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a plumber.” — Rodney Dangerfield

17. “Plumbing is like a game of chess. Each move you make should lead to checkmate.” — Sheldon Cooper, The Big Bang Theory

18. “In Cleveland, there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber’ union.” — Conan O’Brien

19. “The job of a plumber is to make poop go away. If they do their job right, no one will ever know they exist.” — Mike Rowe

20. “I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender.” — Rodney Dangerfield

Plumbing Quotes About Plumbing and Plumbers

See what you think about these plumbing quotes about the industry and skilled workers.

21. “I wanted to be a plumber.” — Robert Goulet

22. “Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades.” — Liam Hemsworth

23. “A real man don’t call the plumbers. If he gonna call himself a man, he needs to know how to fix it, on the spot.” — Phil Robertson

24. “The difference between a bad plumber and a good plumber is that the bad plumber can only make things worse.” — Richard Karn

25. “The lack of indoor plumbing is one of the biggest obstacles to progress and development in many parts of the world.” — John Sweeney

26. “I’m a plumber. You gotta love a plumber. We’re the only ones who know how to fix anything.” — Mario Cantone

27. “If you are a plumber, there is an objective way to establish whether you put together a great piping system or not.” — Maurizio Cattelan

28. “It’s really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.” — Jacqueline Winspear

29. “The plumber is the one who gets called to clean up the mess that was created by the person who didn’t think it was worth the time or money to call the plumber in the first place.” — Mike Rowe

30. “When you have a sense of calling, whether it’s to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn’t just a casual choice.” — Charles R. Swindoll

The invention of Indoor Plumbing Quotes

If you’re thankful for running water and flushing toilets, you’ll appreciate these quotes.

31. “The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization.” — Alan Coult

32. “Plumbing has changed the course of history.” — Roger Daltrey

33. “Plumbing is the art of making civilized life more satisfying.” — Alfred Armand Montapert

34. “Indoor plumbing – it’s going to be big.” — Henny Youngman

35. “Indoor plumbing: The most convenient invention ever made.” — Steven Magee

36. “Indoor plumbing: The greatest advancement in civilization.” — Jules Verne

37. “Civilization begins with distillation and indoor plumbing.” — William Faulkner

38. “Indoor plumbing is a wonderful thing, but if it breaks, it can be a nightmare.” — Mike Holmes

39. “The invention of indoor plumbing transformed the world by improving health and hygiene.” — Terri Guillemets

40. “Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn’t change people’s habits. It just kept them inside the house.” — Alfred Hitchcock

Plumbing Quotes for Future Plumbers

Here are some quotes for the future plumbers out there.

41. “A plumber is an adventurer who traces leaky pipes to their source.” — Arthur Baer

42. “A plumber’s job is to make the connection that others cannot.” — Todd Stocker

43. “The good lawyer is the great salesman. The great plumber is the honest man.” — Orson Welles

44. “When a man hires a plumber, he expects him to know his business.” — George D. Prentice

45. “Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one.” — George Meany

46. “If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” — Red Adair

47. “A good plumber is like a good doctor: always on call, always reliable, and always there to fix what’s broken.” — David Drennan

48. “I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.” — Albert Einstein

49. “God makes something special and unique about each person that sets them apart from every other person, and to me that’s is what artistry is about, whether you are a plumber, a pinter, a musician whatever it is that is unique about you that is translated into your art.” — Bubba Sparxx

50. “The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is 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 Gardner

History of Plumbing

Mesopotamia is credited with the first plumbing systems around 3000 BC when they created drainage systems to carry waste away from the homes of the upper-class society.

Between 2600 and 1800 BC, Pakistan and India developed the first urban sanitation systems.

Around 2500 BC, the Egyptians developed copper pipe systems to carry clean water.

Since that time, plumbing has continued to develop, with flushing toilets starting around 2000 BC, citywide water systems in the mid-1600s, and the first shower in the mid-1700s.

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