cleanliness quotations?

http://www.giga-usa.com/quotes/topics/cleanliness_t001.htm

2006-09-26 02:08:31 · answer #1 · answered by toietmoi 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)

Neurotics build castles in the air, psychotics live in them. My mother cleans them.
Rita Rudner

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
George Burns (1896 - 1996)

People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.
Heather Armstrong, Dooce, 07-07-06

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 (1804 - 1881) (probably something you are looking for)

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journals, 1824

here you go....

2006-09-26 14:22:14 · answer #2 · answered by Sarah 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋

(Edit: as I post this I notice the link in the post above -- same as my source -- I'll leave my post anyway as I've cut and pasted the ones I thought were best)

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."
- John Wesley, Sermon (XCII, On Dress)

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
- Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens), A Curious Dream,
"Facts concerning the Recent Resignation"

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.
- Ernie Pyle

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
- Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia), Lamb's Suppers
(vol. II, last chapter)

All will come out in the washing.
[Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]
- Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra), Don Quixote (I, 20)

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
- Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning

2006-09-26 10:33:23 · answer #3 · answered by Zee 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness is cleanliness
And cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty just like me. Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), "Zero," Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness.

2006-09-26 02:09:12 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Sorta like junk food... "I'm beyond your peripheral vision so you might want to turn your head... Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said." - Ani Difranco, 32 Flavors

2016-03-27 10:25:53 · answer #5 · answered by Susan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

cleanliness is next to godliness

2006-09-26 02:10:00 · answer #6 · answered by kelleyandjohn2000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋

Clean and lean and clean and green are the quotes of today's world.

2006-09-26 04:50:04 · answer #7 · answered by seshu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

The first one that comes to might is "cleaniness is next to godliness"

2006-09-26 02:09:48 · answer #8 · answered by Nunya B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋

http://www.giga-usa.com/gigaweb1/quotes2/qutopcleanlinessx001.htm

2006-09-26 06:15:02 · answer #9 · answered by nayrah1974_zu 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋

“Housework can't kill you. But why take a chance?”
- Phyllis Diller.

2006-09-26 16:54:28 · answer #10 · answered by quasinomer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋

cleanliness quotations?

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