Soap Quotes

• The gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul.

  Byllye Avery

  Air, Water, Soul

  Byllye Avery (1998). “An Altar of Words: Wisdom, Comfort, and Inspiration for African American Women”, Broadway

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• Nobody's ever tried the peace thing, ... We are selling it like soap.

  John Lennon

  Love, Peace, Selling

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• Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.

  William Osler

  Common Sense, Water, Medical

  Sir William Osler: Aphorisms Ch. 5

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• What is elegance? Soap and water!

  Cecil Beaton

  Water, Soap And Water, Elegance

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• There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hands, Calling, Honest

  Charles Spurgeon (2012). “John Ploughman's Talks”, p.69, Whitaker House

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• I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world.

  Mark Twain

  Soap Bubbles, World, Wonder

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

  Lillie Langtry

  Life, Sunshine, Exercise

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• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  C. S. Lewis

  Truth, Live Life, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Said, Let Me

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ebook Library”, p.1292, Penguin UK

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• I like staying in hotels. I like their tiny soap. I like to pretend it's regular-sized and my muscles are huge.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Tiny, Muscles, Hotel

  "I'm Telling You for the Last Time". Stand-up comedy, 1998.

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• I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how little about soap.

  Billie Burke

  Sex, People, Modern Life

  Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp (2016). “With Powder on My Nose”, p.21, Pickle Partners Publishing

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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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• Any fool can make soap. It takes a clever man to sell it.

  Thomas J. Barratt

  Clever, Men, Design

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• Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.

  Howard Hughes

  Bars, Four, Individual

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• The only soap of a dirty society is the clean men; only the clean can wash the grimy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Dirty, Men, Clean

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• If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives.

  Billy Graham

  Dirty, Differences, People

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• People who work on soaps all the time understand the formula of how to do it.

  Amy Hill

  People, Formulas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role.

  Judy Garland

  Humor, Advice, Trying

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

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• There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Fun, Water

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• People's live are expressed in little details....The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the books on the bedside table are all strong symbols of a life in progress. You look at these details and a world unfolds - here are their books, the paintings they cherish, the music that soothes their souls.

  Charlotte Moss

  Strong, Flower, Book

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• Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army.

  George Washington

  Mean, Army, Soldier

  George Washington, John Clement Fitzpatrick, David Maydole Matteson (1777). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.441

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• My friend has hand soap that smells like coconut. It's nice. Unless your hands are dirty from coconuts.

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Nice, Dirty

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• I have wished to see chemistry applied to domestic objects, to malting, for instance, brewing, making cider, to fermentation and distillation generally, to the making of bread, butter, cheese, soap, to the incubation of eggs, &c.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Science, Eggs, Cheese

  Thomas Jefferson (1855). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.73

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• He made enemies as naturally as soap makes suds.

  Percival Wilde

  Sarcastic, Enemy, Soap Bubbles

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• I have a little dog who likes to nap with me. He climbs on my body and puts his face in my neck. He is sweeter than soap. He is more wonderful than a diamond necklace, which can't even bark.

  Mary Oliver

  Dog, Naps, Necks

  Mary Oliver (2005). “New and Selected Poems, Volume Two”, Beacon Press (MA)

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