Wash My Hands Quotes

#1. I listen like mad to any conversation taking place next to me just trying to hear why this is funny. Women's restrooms are especially great. I wash my hands twice waiting for people to come in and start talking.

Lynda Barry

#2. After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Nietszche

#3. I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

Frank Richard Stockton

#4. I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Kahlil Gibran

#5. Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

Pope Francis

#6. I used to wash my hands every ten minutes. I couldn't step out of the house unless I had gloves on. I wouldn't smoke a cigarette unless I opened the pack myself, and I would never use another cigarette out of that pack if someone else had touched it.

Joan Crawford

#7. As I ran water to wash my hands, my earbud fell out of my ear and went down the drain.
"Crap!"
I hauled my cellphone out of my bag and texted Ranger. Bad news. Your earbud just went down the drain in the ladies room.
It was only a matter of time, he textd back.

Janet Evanovich

#8. With this war-time soap I can wash my hands as often as I like without fear of cracked skin. I do wash my hands very frequently, on account of the dog. But with the old peace-time soap, I became very sore. Why is that?

Adolf Hitler

#9. I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.

Jane Grey

#10. Around this time, I decided to go back to the bathroom and, oh, I don't know, wash my hands, brush my hair, maybe pluck my eyebrows.
Stuff.

Diana Peterfreund

#11. I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

Kathryn Stockett

#12. As a chef, I could not wash my hands - nor clean pots, pans, utensils, meats or produce, nor make soups and sauces - if I did not have clean water. Were this to happen, of course, these would be the least of my concerns. Because water is the linchpin of survival: without it, not much else matters.

Marcus Samuelsson

#13. Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

Joan Miro

#14. Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion
religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. I know my maker sanctions what I do. For the world's judgement - I wash my hands thereof. For man's opinion- I defy it

Charlotte Bronte

#16. Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

Edward Abbey

#17. Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility

Naomi Novik

#18. Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

James Wright

#19. The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's how I see it.

Chuck Palahniuk

#20. O wise man, wash your hands of that friend who associates with your enemies.

Saadi

#21. I try to teach my son about sanitation, especially when handling foods like chicken that could be dangerous. I remind him to wash his hands all the time. When my son cooks with me, he stands on a step stool so he can reach the stove. I teach him about safety and fire.

Emeril Lagasse

#22. Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.

Julie Burchill

#23. The first money memory that many of us have as children is finding a coin on the street, in the park, or while walking to school. Then when we picked up the penny or nickel and showed it to our mother or father, and they immediately told us to go wash our hands saying, That is dirty!

Celso Cukierkorn

#24. One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.

Menachem Mendel Of Kotzk

#25. I'd never understood whether the vogue for apologising is a sign of humility of impudence: you do something you shouldn't have done, then you apologise and wash your hands of it.

Umberto Eco

#26. A brick could be used to wash your hands. And after that, I'd suggest you wash out your filthy mouth. Scrub it clean, you scatological talker you.

Jarod Kintz

#27. He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#28. Behold my Love which traveled by Sudden Days. I wash away my withered cold Hands to a Warm Embrace of You, My Eternal Summer!

Kevin Dellinger

#29. I also urge you not to wash your hands, face or mouth in between cigarettes. Let the taste and smell stay with you, in your hair, your clothes, hands and face.

Gudjon Bergmann

#30. If we humans can so easily wash the blood of our fellow humans off our hands, then what hope is there for sparing our future generations from a repeat of the genocides and mass killings of the past?

Thomas Buergenthal

#31. Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

#32. It's only when the settlement work has gone on for months that one realizes how bad things are. As our secretary said to me, your finger-nails never seem dirty until you wash your hands.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#33. You, of course, should always chant when you wash your hands. It is only hygienic.

Joseph Fink

#34. As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.

Lord Byron

#35. A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.

Chinua Achebe

#36. The children of this world and the adults of this world are in entirely separate boats and only drift near each other when we need a ride from someone or when someone needs us to wash our hands.

Lemony Snicket

#37. Whence is that knocking?
How is't with me when every noise appals me?
What hands are here! Ha - they pluck out mine eyes!
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.

William Shakespeare

#38. Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!

Rudyard Kipling

#39. All is in the hands of man. Therefore wash them often.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#40. Putting the 10 commandments up to prevent crime is like putting 'Employees must wash hands' up to keep the piss out of your burger.

Jon Stewart

#41. Essentially, the frequentist approach toward statistics seeks to wash its hands of the reason that predictions most often go wrong: human error.

Nate Silver

#42. You have two choices when someone changes your work. You can either wash your hands of it or embrace it.

Andrew Niccol

#43. It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The troubles of Europe have been laid on our doorstep, so to speak, and will plague us, if we do nothing to cure them, whether we like it or not.

B.C. Forbes

#44. There's a nice clear difference between real protection (wash your hands, or wear a condom) and the fake protection offered by institutions which often come, finally and sadly, to be much too interested first of all in protecting their own power.

Laura Mullen

#45. The Red Knight sighed. 'Sometimes I think you all take me for granted,' he said and went off to wash the blood off his hands.

Miles Cameron

#46. Every nurse ought to be careful to wash her hands very frequently during the day. If her face, too, so much the better.

Florence Nightingale

#47. A chef who doesn't wash his hands is like a cop who steals. It's a cry for help.

Jerry Seinfeld

#48. When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Eckhart Tolle

#49. The contempt of money is no more a virtue than to wash one's hand is one; but one does not willingly shake hands with a man that never washes his.

Horace Walpole

#50. If we wish to wash our hands of the Jews blasphemy and not share in their guilt, we have to part company with them. They must be driven from our country.

Martin Luther

#51. I wash the clothes, rinse them and then scrub them again. Will that square little box do that? I am not using any fancy machines when my hands will do.

Renita D'Silva

#52. After sealing the door, Alqash went to the river to cleanse the blood from his hands and the dagger, and also to wash his hands of the faith that he had forfeited in exchange for short-lived riches.

Musharraf Ali Farooqi

#53. Remember that it is nothing to do your duty, that is demanded of you and is no more meritorious than to wash your hands when they are dirty; the only thing that counts is the love of duty; when love and duty are one, then grace is in you and you will enjoy a happiness which passes all understanding.

W. Somerset Maugham

#54. To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Leonardo Da Vinci

#55. Looking down at the Chinese officer who was trying to gather his entrails with his hands. Suriyawong had the irrational thought that the man ought really to wash his organs before jamming them back into his abdomen. It was so unsanitary.

Orson Scott Card

#56. She was very busy fighting a full-facial, saltwater cavity wash when two big hands gripped her arms and hauled her upright.

Jill Shalvis

#57. So that was what the blush was for? Because he was admitting he didn't wash his hands? I thought it was like some guy requirement to be dirty most of the time.

Jessica Verday

#58. 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

#59. doctors & druggists wash each other's hands

Geoffrey Chaucer

#60. Of all men the drunkard is the foulest. The thief when he is not stealing is like another. The extortioner does not practice in the home. The murderer when he is at home can wash his hands. But the drunkard stinks and vomits in his own bed and dissolves his organs in alcohol.

Duff McKagan

#61. My two secrets to staying healthy: wash your hands all the time. And, if you can't, use Purell or one of the sanitizers. And the other is hot peppers. I eat a lot of hot peppers. I for some reason started doing that in 1992, and I swear by it.

Hillary Clinton

#62. If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?

Steven Wright

#63. That the hands of the sisters Death and Night incessantly softly wash again and ever again, this soiled world.

Walt Whitman

#64. I can't for the life of me not eat something that I want to eat. You know how if you turned on a faucet in your sink to wash your hands, the idea of leaving the bathroom without turning it off is insane? That's how I am about ignoring delicious food.

Mindy Kaling

#65. Just as you wash your hands before eating, clear your mind before engaging with the world.

Mooji

#66. Kate Daniels, deadly swordswoman and rescuer of hungry orphans. Come in. Wash your hands.

Ilona Andrews

#67. One hand washes the other ... both hands wash the face.

Sam Giancana

#68. Friend Tim shakes hands with Perfect Specimen of Mankind. Will never wash right hand again.

Meg Cabot

#69. Why, the club was just the quietest place in the world, a place where a woman could run in to brush her hair and wash her hands, and change her library book, and have a cup of tea.

Kathleen Thompson Norris

#70. Blessed are those who eat greens, for they shall keep their teeth. Blessed are those who wash their hands after wiping their arses, for they shall not sicken. Blessed are those who boil water, for they shall be called saviors of mankind.

Diana Gabaldon

#71. It's hard to play a continuing character like Loomis for nearly 11 years and simply wash your hands of him. It seems a pity.

Donald Pleasence

#72. The two lads were told to wash their hands. The recent thrill of adventure had been superseded by another sort of excitement. They locked themselves up. The tap ran unheeded. Both were in a manly state and moaning like doves.

Vladimir Nabokov

#73. The scrub sink ... is the place where doctors wash their hands after they operate so that they won't get flecks of your vital organs on their Lexus upholstery.

Dave Barry