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Where in this pukehole can a man get a drink? he said
The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.
Think Tank, noun: The shower.
There was a toilet in the far corner, with nothing in it except basic facilities and about a trillion bacteria. It was like a huge three-dimensional petri dish.
Plumbing is usually boring.
It was a small place with bulbs of alcohol, chocolate, coffee, and tea all set with temperature controls in the nipple, so the uniformly tepid drinks could come out anywhere from almost boiling to just this side of ice. The
Found a bunch of old shower caps in my house. Was gonna throw them out but realized they make excellent porta potties for long road trips.
To remember that and the white look of the lavatory made him feel cold and then hot. There were two cocks that you turned and water came out: cold and hot. He felt cold and then a little hot: and he could see the names printed on the cocks. That was a very queer thing.
It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.
Well, there's two kinds of peeing ... There's regular peeing, because you have to pee. And then there's auxiliary competitive peeing. For acquiring empire. I'm all about the real estate.
A man's bathroom is his castle
But first I need to use your privy. Since I turned fifty-five or so, seems like I have to wee on every bush.
Let it be known there is a fountain that was not made by the hands of men
I'm going to the bathroom, not to Beirut. What horrible fate do you think's waiting for me in there? Death by toilet swirly?
Demagogue
a vessel containing beer and other liquids.
For once, mam, my bladder isn't near my eye and why isn't it?
I went to the entrance to the restroom, where the hallway did a sharp bend so nobody could peek into the girls' pee-palace.
Is there anything in this place to drink that didn't once filter through internal organs?
The bathroom was the place to do strange, socially unacceptable things.
I don't drink in the cinema because I have a bladder the size of a hummingbird.
In the cafe bathroom drinking free tap water
Thinking; "Damn, I should've been a better father to my daughter"
It was said that the view through the open window above the urinal, straight across the Bay to the Silver Span, was the finest obtainable from such a position anywhere in the world, but today Philip kept his eyes down. Foreshortened, yes, definitely.
The water vessel, taken as a vessel only, raises the question, "Why does it exist at all?" Through its fitness of construction, it offers the apology for its existence. But where it is a work of beauty it has no question to answer; it has nothing to do, but to be.
Our Lady of Cheribim Chit-Chat.
Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.
All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet.
You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.
The only fountain in the wilderness of life, where man drinks of water totally unmixed with bitterness, is that which gushes for him in the calm and shady recess of domestic life.
What is it with you and girls' bathrooms?
for checking the fullness of his bladder.
If I have to pee during the movie, I'm using this cup."
"It's what you do best," Gabe said.
An old earthen pipe like myself is dry and thirsty and so a most voracious drinker of life at its source; I'm no more to be split by the vital stream than if I were stone or steel.
When you drink water, don't forget the fountain.
Dry wells send us to the fountain.
Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth's broken cisterns, hoping to find water, where not a drop was ever discovered yet.
the Cup That Cheers
You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.
After finishing my drink I feel a pressure in my lower regions, and I realize I have to piss. Since the Dead don't drink, urination is a rare event. I hope I can remember how to do it.
It is true that we Russians have sent only four doctors into space in forty years of flight, but still I might have had chance to fly to Mir or International Space Station except for one fact. This is that I cannot urinate - is this the right word, Mr. Roth? - I cannot urinate on wheel of bus.
I'm a girl who always looks at toilets and thinks Wow, how do we waste that much water when there are people who don't even have water?
Better to sit at the waters birth,
Than a sea of waves to win;
To live in the love that floweth forth,
Than the love that cometh in.
Be thy a well of love, my child,
Flowing, and free, and sure;
For a cistern of love, though undefiled,
Keeps not the spirit pure.
Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides.
But, dear God, don't listen to me. I'm an old lady in the middle of nowhere without a real toilet.
You must know that it is by the state of the lavatory that a family is judged.
It's an alien toilet!" -Cassie
Eternally, woman spills herself away in driblets to the thirsty, seldom being allowed the time, the quiet, the peace, to let the pitcher fill up to the brim.
benediction. Below the window, on one of the bastioned
Buckets,' said Cimorene. 'Lots of buckets, and soap, and lemon juice. Where do you keep your buckets, Mendanbar?'
'Around somewhere,' Mendanbar said vaguely.
There was a young man from Stamboul, Who soliloquized thus to his tool: You took all my wealth And you ruined my health, And now you won't pee, you old fool.
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
Praised be my Lord, for our sister water.
St. Francis of Assisi,
Canticle of the Sun
But I know somebody who has a bedside urinal. How do I compete with that?
Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height.
There are few moments of clarity more profound than those that follow the emptying of an overcharged bladder. The world slows down, the focus sharpens, the brain comes back on line. Huge nebulous difficulties prove on close calm examination to be merely cloud giants.
No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower.
So the nightbirds will start singing.
I'm on the toilet at the 9:30 Club and I'm wondering how mermaids pee.
The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
Inside, the doctor filled an eyedropper with goat milk and began to drip it into the back of the marten's throat. It filled him with immense medical satisfaction when eventually it urinated on the knee of his trousers. This indicated healthy renal functioning.
Water holes are sacrificial waters where you make a steady gift of your pride and high-priced balls.
(I have) a wide stance when going to the bathroom.
I now understand why God created shit and pee: to give even the desperate like me the possibility of refuge.
The Ileenium system?
It is a moral travesty to give a woefully thirsty man a drink of water in a measuring cup.
I need a bathroom. And there are way too many people around here for us to
Which do you think, Commendatore? Bowels in or out?
The reason is that even in a fantasy there is nothing even remotely erotic about a toilet bowl. In fact, considered as an accoutrement to a sexual encounter, a toilet bowl is a real cold shower.
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 about the city, where it is used by the inhabitants for drink and other purposes.
When I write my book I'm going to tell people that if they happen to forget their wide-mouth jar, they should pee far enough away from their position so it doesn't ruin their hiding spot.
Is that a space?
No, it's a hydrant.
Flowing water makes men meditative. They urinate with a sense of eternity like sailors.
You don't need to use the language of God to ask where the restrooms are.
I asked to use the bathroom and sat, recovering, on the edge of a marble bath on a dais - the kind Greek husbands are slain in.
History - that little sewer where man loves to wallow.
Trust me-that toilet and me were best friends for the first few days I was here.
The biggest waste of water in the country by far. You spend half a pint and flush two gallons.
You must write for the waste basket.
When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.
I do some of my best reading while seated in the bathroom.
There really isn't much use in getting into a pissing contest since I have to sit down to pee anyway.
My plumbing is no one's business but my own.
I need to use the Dam Bathroom, I need to use the Dam Snack bar, I want a Dam Tee-Shirt.
When it comes to nothingness, there is no cup.
What is that yellow stuff in the bottle, Soc?" "Urine, with a few herbs." "Urine!" I said, pulling my leg away from him in disgust. "Don't be silly," he said, grabbing my leg and pulling it back. "Urine is a respected elixir in the ancient healing traditions.
"If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water" (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come? To heretics where the fountain and river of water is in no way life-giving? Or to the Church, which is One?
I bet their sewer is nicer than ours.
Have you peed somewhere and wish to tell me about it?
I don't like a clever toilet looking at our butts.
A tank full of life and a running tap.
Who needs a bladder when you need an alarm clock
Fetches cups of caf.
A computer scientist is a machine for converting coffee into urine.
I used to say I was Saint Cyndi of a Feces, because wherever shit fell, there I was.
If a woman were about to proceed to her execution, she would demand a little time to perfect her toilet.
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
The Artesian Well never returns its flow, where may stream its arrogation of space?
Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chamber of my brain
Quaintest thoughts - queerest fancies
Come to life and fade away;
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.
Don't worry girls ... I have the bladder of a camel ...
Does a toilet seat get ass?
A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.