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Quotes About Cleanliness

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
God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.
~ Dwight L. Moody
No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.
~ Trevanian
In every aspect of life, purity and holiness, cleanliness and refinement, exalt the human condition . . . Even in the physical realm, cleanliness will conduce to spirituality.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
I've been showing up late and dirty all my life.
~ Jase Robertson
pure air, sunshine, properly prepared food, nonpoisonous herbs, water treatments, pure water to drink, abstemiousness (moderation), foods not robbed of their life-giving properties during manufacture, and cleanliness of body and premises.
~ Jethro Kloss
He counted thirteen virtues: temperance, silence, order, resolution, frugality, industry, sincerity, justice, moderation, cleanliness, tranquillity, chastity, and humility. Soon
~ Jill Lepore
straw or a speck of dust anywhere.
~ Jilly Cooper
The next time she scolded me, I said if I cleaned the table any more I would take the color out of the wood and Miss Kizer snapped back, "Cleanliness is next to Godliness and don't you forget it.
~ Jim Murphy
Who are you to judge the life i live i know i'm not perfect and i don't live to be. but before you start pointing fingers make sure your hands are clean.
~ Jimi Hendrix
My most important [wardrobe] rule is: Never put anything back soiled.
~ Joan Crawford
My most important rule is: Never put anything back soiled. Things get hung up at night, but first thing in the morning I bring them out in daylight to see if there's a water spot, a grease spot, a smudge.
~ Joan Crawford
When they were old enough to stand on a stool at the sink they washed out their shoelaces and polished their little white shoes every day before putting them away. They hung up their clothes if they were clean—which wasn't very often.
~ Joan Crawford
Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum - "My God, the floor's immaculate. Lie down, you hot bitch."
~ Joan Rivers
What is elegance? Soap and water! CECIL BEATON
~ Jodi Kahn
Luperón," Steve says one day early in our stay, "is the only place you have to wash your hands before you pee.
~ Ann Vanderhoof
True, all the streets and roads are very clean, and the school has been freshly painted, but why does that cow have to pull a wagon even though she's pregnant? Why is that child who has filled her apron with grass looking around in fear? And, of course, if you're driving through or looking down from an airplane, you can't see farmer Wurz sitting on his milking stool in the dark barn.
~ Anna Seghers
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
case any dirt had accumulated overnight.
~ Anne Ursu
The place where we were operating was not fit to be called an operating room. Aseptic work had not been done in it for some years. The floor could not be scrubbed properly, or the water would go through on the laboratories below.
~ Frederick Banting
I instinctively try to protect people from filth.
~ Tony Abbott
I've done whatever it takes to prove I am a clean athlete.
~ Sun Yang
Then tell me all the reasons why you're going to marry me in June." "Well, because you're so clean. You're sort of blowy clean, like I am. There's two sorts, you know. One's like Dick: he's clean like polished pans. You and I are clean like streams and winds. I can tell whenever I see a person whether he is clean, and if so, which kind of clean he is.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I think that's one of the biggest things people don't understand: a clean house will sell faster.
~ Jonathan Scott