Hygiene Quotes

• Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Others Opinions

  A Room of One's Own (1929) ch. 3

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• Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

  Ezra Pound

  Inspirational, Degrees, Literature

  How to Read pt. 2 (1931)

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• The crown of literature is poetry.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Poetry, Crowns, Literature

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Cakes And Ale”, p.90, Random House

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• Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

  Louis Pasteur

  Food, Drinking, Health

  Etudes sur le vin Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. B

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  He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fitness, Hope

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• Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

  H. L. Mencken

  Medicine, Morality, Corruption

  Prejudices Types of Men

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• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  Samuel Lover

  Men, Way, Scratches

  'Handy Andy' (1842) ch. 36

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• Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  House, Healthy, Worldly Life

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• Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Passion, Butterfly, Men

  "Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly art - in pictures", www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2016.

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• Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

  George Henry Lewes

  Progress, Literature, Causes

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Emotional, Practice

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• Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Health, Men, Views

  "All I Survey". Book by G. K. Chesterton, www.theguardian.com. 1933.

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• When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.

  George Carlin

  School, Jersey, Reason

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• I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

  Myrna Loy

  Thinking, Common Sense, Carrying On

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• Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Mind, Irony, Personal Hygiene

  Elizabeth Bibesco (1951). “Haven: Short Stories, Poems, and Aphorisms”

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• The concept of industry domination of regulatory agencies was well known and documented in the literature by the 1960s.

  Nick Johnson

  Agency, Literature, Well Known

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• He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

  Shimon Peres

  Mentor, Literature, Taught

  "Israel's Statesman of Peace". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 2, 2003.

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• Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

  Gore Vidal

  Literature, World, Virtue

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections upon a sinking ship”

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• He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

  Joseph Heller

  Sarcastic, Literature, Enjoy

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering.

  Harold Bloom

  What Matters, Color, Suffering

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• Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

  Ravi Shankar

  Literature, Months, Great Music

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• The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Differences, Quality, Literature

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• It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man.

  Henry Stephens Salt

  Men, Animal, Vegetarianism

  "The Humanities of Diet". Book by Henry Stephens Salt, 1897.

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• The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Medicine, Vices

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.12, Vintage

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• The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and ... often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.

  Vaclav Havel

  Suffering, Literature, Deceptive

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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