Personal Hygiene Quotes

• Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

  James Wright

  Hands, Practice, Hygiene

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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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• Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

  Elizabeth Bibesco

  Hygiene, Mind, Irony

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

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• There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Successful, Order, Hygiene

  "Gone From the Chapel". "Dear Prudence" with Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. March 22, 2016.

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• I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Hands, Hygiene, Obsessive Compulsive

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• Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

  Jim Carrey

  Hygiene, Packages, Knows

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• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Blood, Hygiene, People

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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• It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

  Bruce Schneier

  Technology, Hygiene, Police

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English gentlemanliness and his favorite notions of personal hygiene. Everybody knew that his class was liable to degenerate into a demonstration of some practical points about rowing, with Buggy sitting on the table and showing us how to pull an oar.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Religious, Teaching

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The Seven Storey Mountain”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking, 'If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?'

  Robert Pattinson

  Sexy, Hair, Years

  "An Open Letter to Kristen Stewart" by Shannon Bradley-Colleary, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2012.

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• You both passed out,” Percy said. “I don’t know why, but Ella told me not to worry about it. She said you were…sharing?” “Sharing,” Ella agreed. She crouched in the stern, preening her wing feathers with her teeth, which didn’t look like a very effective form of personal hygiene. She spit out some red fluff. “Sharing is good. No more blackouts. Biggest American blackout, August 14, 2003. Hazel shared. No more blackouts.” Percy scratched his head. “Yeah…we’ve been having conversations like that all night. I still don’t know what she’s talking about.

  Rick Riordan

  Night, August, Talking

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• I've had and probably still have a lot of bad haircuts. My mom just sent me some pictures - I don't know why she did this - but she sent me some pictures of me when I was probably like 12. I grew up in the D.C. area and I used to wear a Redskins jersey just walking around. I just had kind of a bowl haircut for a long time and no sense of style or personal hygiene.

  Rob Huebel

  Mom, Hygiene, Long

  "Rob Huebel on meeting Paul McCartney and how he knows Bigfoot exists". "11 Questions" with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2016.

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