Cleanliness Godliness Quotes

#1. Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap.

Terry Pratchett

#2. Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The

Maya Angelou

#3. If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn't next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.

Tom Robbins

#4. He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified.

Joseph Conrad

#5. Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

P. J. O'Rourke

#6. Literature instead of cleanliness was next to godliness.

Stephen King

#7. I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?

Patrick Macnee

#8. Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.

Maya Angelou

#10. I'll get it if you need it,
I'll search if you don't see it,
You're thirsty, I'll be rain,
You get hurt, I'll take your pain.
I know you don't believe it,
But I said it and I still mean it,
When you heard what I told you,
When you get worried I'll be your soldier.

Gavin DeGraw

#11. Listen to me, Siddalee, and listen good: There is no excuse to let your looks go, no matter how poor you are. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but honey let me tell you, ugliness will get you nowhere.

Rebecca Wells

#12. The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

Anthony Kiedis

#13. If truth were told, most of us spend longer each day on personal cleanliness than on practical godliness.

Alistair Begg

#14. Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Charles Dickens

#15. The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

Mao Zedong

#16. Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.

Dan Groat

#17. I do not intend for 'honor, courage, and commitment' to be just words; I expect them to frame the way that we live and act.

Charles C. Krulak

#18. Sweat cleaned you as effectively as water. But this was the race which had invented the proverb that cleanliness was next to godliness - cleanliness, not purity.

Graham Greene

#19. in Eastern Europe computer privacy is like cleanliness in America: next to godliness. "So

Stephen King

#20. Let your hands be clean; God loves clean hands and no wonder cleanliness is next to Godliness.

Israelmore Ayivor

#21. Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?

Elizabeth Goudge

#22. Organization is a masculine trait, cleanliness a feminine one. Cleanliness is next to godliness because manliness is godliness.

A.D. Aliwat

#23. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

Francis Bacon

#24. People are darkened rooms, and each person they choose to include in their lives is a beam of light, uncovering some new, previously hidden part of them.

Abigail Barnette

#25. If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.

Jerry Climer

#26. Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

Erma Bombeck

#27. Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.

Gerry Spence

#28. The love for God is the love for nature.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

Francis Bacon

#30. Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

Florynce Kennedy

#31. Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.

Carl Van Vechten