Top 100 Quotes About Cleanliness
#1. He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, You are an untidy person.
Jim Butcher
#5. One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#6. Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
Carl Van Vechten
#7. 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
#8. No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.
Trevanian
#10. Thirteen virtues necessary for true success: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquility, chastity, and humility.
Benjamin Franklin
#11. Markets always change, and as soon as there's downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value.
Donald Trump
#12. Devote 100 hours every year towards the cause of cleanliness.
Narendra Modi
#13. In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
Joseph Joubert
#14. The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it's translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#15. Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.
Catherine Marshall
#16. Never will I overindulge the requests of my flesh, rather I will cherish my body with cleanliness and moderation.
Og Mandino
#17. I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.
Ric Ocasek
#18. According to the World Health Organization, an average of Rs. 6500 per person was lost in India due to lack of cleanliness and hygiene. Swachh Bharat would make a significant impact on public health and in safeguarding income of the poor, ultimately contributing to the national economy.
Narendra Modi
#19. I think the Americans are the only people who have good beds. I consider the American bedroom unparalleled for freshness, comfort, and cleanliness. It is worth going all over Europe in order to come home to one's own bed.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#20. The mother must set the example in holding out the shrine as the heart of the house hold! She must enforce discipline over the children in personal cleanliness in humility and hospitality, in good manners and acts of service.
Sathya Sai Baba
#21. Bugs are a great pest in Colorado. They come out of the earth, infest the wooden walls, and cannot be got rid of by any amount of cleanliness. Many careful housewives take their beds to pieces every week and put carbolic acid on them.
Isabella Bird
#22. To be more precise about it, it is neither close nor open-mindedness but wisdom, discernment, and a pure heart that God wants.
Criss Jami
#23. 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
#24. Humility is to spiritual cleanliness what soap is to a complete bathing. EL
Evinda Lepins
#25. Anti-Semitism is exactly the same as delousing. Getting rid of lice is not a question of ideology, it is a matter of cleanliness. In just this same way anti-Semitism for us has not been a question of ideology but a matter of cleanliness.
Heinrich Himmler
#26. Christian values were important at home. Cleanliness. Don't steal. Don't lie. Those were the rules, and they were strictly enforced. Especially the stealing and lying. When you broke the rules, you got a beating. I always broke the rules a lot.
Jimmy Cliff
#27. You wouldn't have to wash, said Brian, whose parents forced him to wash a great deal more than he thought could possibly be healthy. Not that it did any good. There was something basically ground in about Brian.
Neil Gaiman
#28. You cannot be fresh and feeling fine, wearing a washed vest under an unwashed shirt; or, an unwashed vest over a washed shirt. Both have to be clean, to provide a sense of tingling joy. So too outer and inner cleanliness is but the reflection of the inner achievement.
Sathya Sai Baba
#29. We can cherish nothing less than our random understanding of death and the earth-shaking love that draws us to one another ... Cleanliness and valor will be our watchwords. Nothing less will get us past the armed sentry and over the mountainous border.
John Cheever
#30. 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
#31. Clean your mind and our country will automatically get dry cleaned.
Amit Abraham
#32. It is often said that the Japanese are extremely clean at home, or inside any house or office, but dirty and untidy outside. 'Go and look at a railway station,' I was told, 'and you'll be horrified.' I went and was horrified; horrified by the cleanliness of the place.
George Mikes
#34. A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. The American women are very pretty and have great simplicity of character, and the extreme neatness of their appearance is truly delightful: cleanliness is everywhere even more studiously attended to here than in England.
Marquis De Lafayette
#36. It isn't necessary to be socialists in order to love Pertini. Whatever he says or does, smells of cleanliness, of loyalty and of sincerity.
Indro Montanelli
#37. 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
#38. 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
#39. It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
Virginia Woolf
#41. 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
#42. After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.
Agatha Christie
#44. If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's throne.
Jerry Climer
#45. 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
#46. A man who possesses genius is insufferable unless he also possesses at least two other things: gratitude and cleanliness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#47. One probably should not form opinions about people based on the cleanliness of their workspace, but she promptly liked this Telnola more than Ms. Klume. Of
Lindsay Buroker
#48. Cleanliness drive is something that has touched every Indian.
Narendra Modi
#49. Back in the day, it was either both a mother and her daughter had pubic hair, or the daughter didn't. Today, in many a case, the mother is the one who doesn't.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#50. Cleanliness is a freedom movement for an aspiring Nation. Culture of cleanliness will influence the heygine, health, asthetics and natural setting of the nation, which is a new age currency of a country.
Vishwas Chavan
#51. Levi: "Somebody please shut up these god-damned brats."
Hanji: "Good thing those wide-eyed kids don't know what a cleanliness freak you are ... they'd be in for a rude awakening.
Hajime Isayama
#52. Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.
Chace Crawford
#53. My focus is not merely a beautiful city, but a city that's made beautiful on the parameters of good health and cleanliness
Narendra Modi
#54. But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
Frances Farmer
#57. When I visit a new bookstore, I demand cleanliness, computer monitors, and rigorous alphabetization. When I visit a secondhand bookstore, I prefer indifferent housekeeping, sleeping cats, and sufficient organizational chaos ...
Anne Fadiman
#58. Throw your empty pop-corn tub in the trash and the entire cinema will be clean for the next patrons.
Malti Bhojwani
#59. There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.
Theodore Dalrymple
#60. Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain basic standards of cleanliness in their facilities.
Loretta Lynch
#61. What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.
Keeley Hawes
#63. Properly buried."
"Properly kept."
"That is the way with witches."
"And with all things.
Victoria Schwab
#65. Miss N. had taught her nurses to watch carefully in order to understand what the ill required and provide it. Not medicine - that was the doctors' domain - but the things she argued were equally crucial to recovery: light, air, warmth, cleanliness, rest, comfort, nourishment, and conversation.
Emma Donoghue
#66. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
Francis Bacon
#67. Living in filth is dark doom. The light of awaken leads to cleanliness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#68. He gave a moment's consideration to the possibility of lingering to wash his face and hands (maybe even to changing his puke-splattered shirt), but he decided to forgo cleanliness in favor of making a fast exit.
Clive Barker
#69. Mahatma Gandhi never compromised on cleanliness. He gave us freedom. We should give him a clean India.
Narendra Modi
#70. Every acquisition, every step forward in knowledge is the result of courage, of severity toward oneself, of cleanliness with respect to oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. If everyone sweeps their own doorstep, their own neighbourhoods, the world will be a clean, pure and healthy place for life to prosper.
Vishwas Chavan
#72. I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
John Burns
#73. Shaucha, or living purely, involves maintaining a cleanliness in body, mind, and environment so that we can experience ourselves at a higher resolution.
Donna Farhi
#74. 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
#75. To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.
Dejan Stojanovic
#76. Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience
J.R.D. Tata
#77. Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.
Brian W. Aldiss
#79. The diesel engine industry has illegally poured millions of tons of pollution into the air, .. It's time for the industry to clean up its act, and it's time for it to clean up the air.
Janet Reno
#80. Cleanliness & good sanitation in schools is a matter of high importance.
Narendra Modi
#81. Cleanliness and sanitation were closest to Gandhiji's heart. We will launch a 'Clean India' campaign and by Gandhiji's 150th birth anniversary, all schools in the country should have toilets with separate toilets for girls.
Narendra Modi
#82. I would like to sit still for a while but I'm restless you know and sitting still is only an ideal like celibacy and complete cleanliness.
John Steinbeck
#83. Organization is a masculine trait, cleanliness a feminine one. Cleanliness is next to godliness because manliness is godliness.
A.D. Aliwat
#84. 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
#85. Let your hands be clean; God loves clean hands and no wonder cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Israelmore Ayivor
#86. What does competency in the long run mean? It means to all reasonable beings, cleanliness of person, decency of dress, courtesy of manners, opportunities for education, the delights of leisure, and the bliss of giving.
Edwin Percy Whipple
#87. Madrigal sniffed herself. "I'm almost sure I don't smell." "Maybe not, but between shining cleanliness and not smelling, there is a vast gray area.
Laini Taylor
#88. I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.
Francis Bacon
#89. Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours.
Thomas Jefferson
#90. One of the saddest sights of the slums is to see the thrifty wife of the working man, with her rosy brood of children, used to country air and sunshine, used to space, privacy, good surroundings, cleanliness, quiet, shut up amid the noise and dirt and confusion, in the gloom of the slum.
Albion Fellows Bacon
#91. I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Mahatma Gandhi
#92. 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
#93. in Eastern Europe computer privacy is like cleanliness in America: next to godliness. "So
Stephen King
#94. Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.
Volkmar Sigusch
#95. You preach cleanliness,
so I try to keep my room clean,
but I feel no closer to God, and I guess that's okay
because he doesn't know
who he's fucking with anyway.
Kris Kidd
#96. 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
#97. Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.
Sathya Sai Baba
#98. Instead of recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more people into the houses, and court the return of the plague.
Thomas Malthus
#99. He counted thirteen virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquillity, chastity, and humility. Soon
Jill Lepore
#100. Man is born as he dies, rebuking cleanliness;
Djuna Barnes
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