Cleanliness Quotes - Page 2

• I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.

  Edgerrin James

  Real, Pride, Rooms

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• Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Thinking, Order, Waiting

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• It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.

  Mae West

  Funny, Women, Memorable

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

  Utada Hikaru

  House, Obsessed

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Discipline, Morality, Habit

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• In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Holiness, Spirituality, Purity

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• Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Success, Humility, Order

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• If you do it first class and you don't compromise values, and you don't compromise quality, and you don't compromise service, and you don't compromise cleanliness, then everybody else who is the competitor has got to play catch-up.

  Ray Kroc

  Play, Class, Quality

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• Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Steps, Relation, Hardness

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo”, p.218, Vintage

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• Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

  Charles Dickens

  People, Next, Godliness

  1860-1 Great Expectations, ch.4.

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• For some natures, changing their opinions is just as much a requirement of cleanliness as changing their clothes: for others, however, it is merely a requirement of vanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Change, Vanity, Clothes

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• Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.

  Joseph Addison

  Age, Looks, Pieces

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1855). “The Spectator”, p.446

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• Keep your blood clean, your body lean, and your mind sharp.

  Henry Rollins

  Motivational Workout, Blood, Mind

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• Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appreciate.

  Ellen G. White

  Air, People, Appreciate

  Ellen G. White (1999). “All About Herbs, Charcoal, Medications, and Drugs: A Spirit of Prophecy Compilation”, p.393, Digital Inspiration

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• Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

  Anthony Burgess

  Baths, Week, Menace

  1963 Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.1.

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• Sometimes I just wish I had a day off. I really need to clean my room.

  Hilary Duff

  Wish, Days Off, Needs

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• So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.

  Benjamin Thompson

  Believe, Character, Men

  sir Benjamin Thompson (count Rumford.) (1796). “Essays, political, economical and philosophical”, p.35

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• Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Witty, Laughter

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• Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Clothes, Mind, Cleansing

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• 1) Temperance... drink not to elevation. (2) Silence... avoid trifling conversations. (3) Order: Let all your things have their places... (4) Resolution... perform without fail what you resolve. (5) Frugality... i.e. waste nothing. (6) Industry: Lose no time; be always employ'd... (7) Sincerity: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently... (8) Justice: Wrong none by doing injuries... (9) Moderation: Avoid extremes; forbear resenting... (10) Cleanliness: Tolerate no uncleanliness in body... (11) Tranquility: Be not disturbed at trifles... (12) Chastity (13) Humility : Imitate Jesus.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Jesus, Humility, Thinking

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• I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

  Ric Ocasek

  Love, Happiness, Sad

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• I think toilets are more important than temples. No matter how many temples we go to, we are not going to get salvation. We need to give priority to toilets and cleanliness.

  Jairam Ramesh

  Thinking, Giving, Priorities

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• Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

  Francis Bacon

  Next, Sin, Duty

  "Advancement of Learning" by Francis Bacon, (Book II), 1605.

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• To keep the air fresh among words
  Is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Air, Secret

  "Simplicity". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

  Mark Twain

  Education, Running, Teaching

  A Curious Dream "Facts Concerning the Recent Resignation" (1872)

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