Quotes About Cleanliness

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.

I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

Sanitation and cleanliness are among the humblest of the civic virtues, and it is easy to underestimate their significance.

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.

baby's diaper is soiled, or it can be manually checked by inserting

the fact that I really need a professional declutterer, or at least a book on decluttering from the library, unless they've decluttered the library too and have no books anymore

We can cherish nothing less than our random understanding of death and the earth-shaking love that draws us to one another ... Cleanliness and valor will be our watchwords. Nothing less will get us past the armed sentry and over the mountainous border.

The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be.

I have no faith in that woman who talks of grace and glory abroad, and uses no soap and water at home. Let the buttons be on the shirts, let the children's socks be mended, let the roast mutton be done to a turn, let the house be as neat as a new pin, and the home be as happy as home can be.

If your house smells good, people perceive you as a good person. If there is a bad smell, people may perceive you another way.

If my room is clean, it means that my internet is not working.

Long live your laundry!

I don't like litter and blight.

My mother says that laundry breeds if you don't wash it.

You'll come home to a clean, fresh house that will make you feel like the queen's own cleaning staff has come through your house." Or "You'll be wearing the tux you got married in within a few weeks!" Can you see how this kind of language is more motivating than "Your house will be clean" or "You'll lose weight"?

Is completely responsible for the efficient operation, cleanliness, and maintenance of the 132 rooms of the Executive Mansion containing 1,600,000 cubic feet; $2,000,000 of mechanical and air-conditioning equipment.

Under all this dirt the floor is really very clean." Lydia Davis

Under all this dirt the floor is really very clean.

Cleanliness is itself a virtue. Next to godliness? If she were quite frank with herself, she would probably change the order and say godliness is next to cleanliness. Certainly she would prefer as a visitor a clean sinner to a dirty saint.

How did the apartment look?" Riggle wondered. "Nothing was out of place.

the floor was always clean, the tables gleaming. The ashes vanished from the fireplace, the dishes washed themselves, and the firewood regrew overnight. In the pantry there were jars of oil and wine, bowls of cheese and barley-grain, always fresh and full.

Though the rooms were deserted, there was no speck of dust, and I would learn that none could cross the marble threshold. However I tracked upon it, the floor was always clean, the tables gleaming. The ashes vanished from the fireplace, the dishes washed themselves, and the firewood regrew overnight.

You clean and organize; you demand perfection—did you ever wonder why?