Best 103 quotes in «cleanliness quotes» category

But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.

Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

Cleanliness is a state of purity, clarity, and precision

Cleanliness drive is something that has touched every Indian.

Cleanliness may be defined to be the emblem of purity of mind.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.

Cleanliness is the Hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience

Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.

Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.

Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.

God loveth the clean.

He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.

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

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

I'm not a celebrity. I'm intentionally and defiantly not a celebrity. I don't have any interest in it. I don't have any talent for it. I keep my personal life out of my public life as cleanly as I can.

I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.

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.

I take pride in whatever I do. If you told me to clean the room up, I'd clean it up real good.

In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.

I'm known clean around the Earth.

Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.

It's in the homes of spiteful old widows that one finds such cleanliness.

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

Markets always change, and as soon as there's downturn, cleanliness becomes a major value.

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.

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.

No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.

Our Quakers love us. We're big with the Quakers. It's all about cleanliness.

Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things.

One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

So, I gained a little..weight, .. Big deal. Clean and sober.

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

Those who feel they are clean, go ahead and throw the first rock. If you're clean, if you have not done anything wrong or been accused of anything wrong, go ahead and start the show.

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.

The Clean Michigan Initiative has been and continues to be a success.

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

Blessed is he who takes off his filthy garment, to put on a new clean robe.

A clean house is a sad house.

But still, he reflected, I ought to wash my pajamas more often. Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed. --Tengo, IQ84

Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.

Cleanliness begins with love for godliness

Cleanliness beings with purity of your own mind, thoughts and heart.

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.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness, it is godliness.

Cleanliness is not next to godliness, it is godliness. When the mind is cleansed of all primordial impurities, then and then only real godliness of actual practical potential begins to manifest.

Clean your mind and our country will automatically get dry cleaned.