Quotes of Cleanliness - somelinesforyou

“ It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness. ”

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“ Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline. ”

- Victoria Ocampo

“ Quality, service, cleanliness, and value. ”

- Steven J. Ross

“ Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. ”

- John Wesley

“ If by the last quarter of the twentiesth century godliness wasn't next to something a little more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness. ”

- Tom Robbins

“ Woman embroiders man's life - Embroider is to beautify - The embroidery of cleanliness - Of a smile - Of gentle words. ”

- Mary Wood Allen

“ Disease can never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine. ”

- Sean O’Casey

“ He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. ”

- Bible

“ Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. ”

- John Wesley

“ People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap, at least you get the soap. In this campaign you just get two guys telling you they really value cleanliness. ”

- David Brooks

“ Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are Obedience, Endeavor, Honesty, Order, Cleanliness, Sobriety, Truthfulness, Sacrifice, and love of the Fatherland. ”

- Adolf Hitler

“ God loveth the clean. ”

- The Koran

“ All will come out in the washing. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold! ”

- Charles Lamb

“ God loveth the clean. ”

- The Koran

“ Irony is the hygiene of the mind. ”

- Elizabeth Bibesco

“ For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do. ”

- William Shakespeare
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