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Quotes About Cleanliness

For society to progress, we should not only move forward but also clean up after ourselves.
~ Boyan Slat
Dirt used to be a badge of honor. Dirt used to look like work. But we've scrubbed the dirt off the face of work and consequently we've created this suspicion of anything that's too dirty.
~ Mike Rowe
Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Those who store, package, and sell the food we serve our families have a responsibility to maintain basic standards of cleanliness in their facilities.
~ Loretta Lynch
You can get away with black sweatpants for a day or two, but pink is something you wear for one day: the day before you go to the washer or cleaners. When people wear pink t-shirts for three straight days, it disturbs me. It aggravates me.
~ Cam'ron
My only phobia is untidiness. My hair has to be neatly kept; my shoes are always clean. Everything has to be in a straight line, in its place.
~ Norman Wisdom
I get strangely obsessed about the cleanliness of my house.
~ Utada Hikaru
In going about the thing that has struck me the most is the untidiness and uncleanliness that comes from bad mattresses... This is of great importance from the health point of view.
~ Tim Pat Coogan
The lamp burns bright when wick and oil are clean.
~ Ovid
Once a year I will clean my room, just because I feel I should.
~ Usain Bolt
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~ Oscar Wilde
Cleanliness is next to Godliness," but baptism of the body, unless followed by baptism of the mind, becomes practically meaningless. If we bathe and thus purify our bodies, we will find that our mind will temporarily become purified, but unless we change our soul's wickedness by calmness, and meditation, and constant spiritual vigilance, we will remain the same old devils with bad habits in spite of the temporary purifying effect of the water on our bodies.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Oh, my young friends and fellow sinners! beware of presuming to exercise your poor carnal reason. Oh, be morally tidy! Let your faith be as your stockings, and your stockings as your faith. Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment's notice!
~ Wilkie Collins
Let your faith be as your stockings, and your stockings as your faith. Both ever spotless, and both ready to put on at a moment's notice!.
~ Wilkie Collins
Death like style is the removal of rubbish.
~ Will Durant
You know, at home in Newington, Mac works all day to keep the house spotlessly clean. The gardeners work outside to bring the entire garden to near perfection. But it's all an illusion. It's artificial. All life is disorganized.
~ Will Thomas
Filth and vermin though they shock the over-nice are imperfections of the flesh closely related in the just imagination of the poet to excessive cleanliness.
~ William Carlos Williams
NANTUCKET Flowers through the window lavender and yellow changed by white curtains? Smell of cleanliness? Sunshine of late afternoon? On the glass tray a glass pitcher, the tumbler turned down, by which a key is lying?And the immaculate white bed
~ William Carlos Williams
British Medical Journal asked its readers to vote on the most important medical milestone that had occurred since 1840, when the BMJ was first published. Third place went to anesthesia, second place to antibiotics. The winner was one you might not have expected: the "sanitary revolution," encompassing sewage disposal and methods for securing clean water. Much of the world, though, is still waiting for that revolution to come.
~ Chip Heath
One didn't understand, until one had seen a great many bodies, the unconscious effort that one must be making every minute simply to keep one's hands and face and clothes clean. The world's surfaces were so filthy that the living touched them only with the tips of their fingers and the soles of their shoes. How grubby it was to die, to give up making that effort.
~ Chris Cleave
She was shocked by how dirty Florence was.
~ Christobel Kent
What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
~ Christopher Fry
A good old custom. Always fornicate Between clean sheets and spit on a well-scrubbed floor.
~ Christopher Fry
You must keep them as tidy as you can,
~ Helen L. Taylor