Quotes About Cleanliness And Godliness

#1. Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.

Harry Markopolos

#2. 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

#3. When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.

Steve Sabol

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Alistair Begg

#8. 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

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

Maya Angelou

#10. God, she wanted to tackle him and roll around in him like a cat in a field of daisies.

Rainbow Rowell

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

Stephen King

#12. 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

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

Stephen King

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

P. J. O'Rourke

#15. The Federal Department of Education should be eliminated. The Department of Education is unconstitutional and should not be involved in education, at any level.

Sharron Angle

#16. I have had this view of the optimization of the electrode design for a long time. Historically we went through various phases in the work and eventually worked on large sheets - very large sheets - of palladium.

Martin Fleischmann

#17. 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

#18. My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'

Josh Charles

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

Maya Angelou

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

Francis Bacon

#21. The land knows you, even when you are lost.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#22. 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

#23. Extend your hand to help others and be an example.

Debasish Mridha

#24. 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

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#26. 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

#27. 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

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

Jerry Climer

#29. Tyrion let the eunuch help him mount. "Lord Varys," he said from the saddle, "sometimes I feel as though you are the best friend I have in King's Landing and sometimes I feel you are my worst enemy."
"How odd. I think quite the same of you.

George R R Martin

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

Carl Van Vechten

#31. A father never gives up on a son, not really, no matter how poorly he behaves at times or how many stupid decisions he makes. He tries to help that son learn how to become the man he was meant to be.

Aleksandra Layland

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

A.D. Aliwat

#33. I haven't heard anything from anyone in the administration.

Timothy Bottoms

#34. 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

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

Israelmore Ayivor

#36. If they were meant to be together they would find a way to do it.

Nicholas Sparks

#37. I am now a faded image of my former being,
I let that persona go.
I like myself for who I am and I choose to be, me.

Tina J. Richardson

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Karen K. Bradley