Quotes About Cleanliness Is Next To Godliness

#1. 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

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

Jerry Climer

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

A.D. Aliwat

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

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. 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

#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. 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

#8. 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

#9. We don't know which of our acts in the present will shape the future. But

Gloria Steinem

#10. When my Beloved appears,
With what eye do I see Him?
With His eye, not with mine,
For none sees Him except Himself.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#11. 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

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

Maya Angelou

#13. 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

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

Stephen King

#15. People want to have what you have, but they don't want to go through the fire you went through to get it.

Jeanette Coron

#16. Fame is in the eyes of the beholder; that meant that even though the beholder thinks their famous, to millions of other people they are not...
Whereas some will see you as an idol and well-known when you do not see yourself as either.

Melina Turner

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

Maya Angelou

#19. 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

#20. I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.

Seth Gordon

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

Stephen King

#22. 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

#23. I want to do things that are very outside of the box, and I want to do movies that no one else can do. If someone else can make the movie that I'm making, then I shouldn't do it.

Darren Lynn Bousman

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

Francis Bacon

#25. By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.

William S. Burroughs

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#28. In some instances, I would say the writer does deserve equal billing with the director. In other instances the director - especially if he wrote part of the script himself - is clearly more the author of the movie.

Mark Romanek