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Quotes About Hygiene

The French are connoisseurs of sadness, they know all kinds. This is why they have bidets.
~ Margaret Atwood
May I remind you all about the importance of hand-washing, seven times a day at least, and after every encounter with a stranger. It is never too early to practise this essential precaution. Avoid anyone who is sneezing.
~ Margaret Atwood
Nothing wrecks your nails like a lethal pandemic plague
~ Margaret Atwood
Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.
~ Erma Bombeck
If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.
~ Sherman Alexie
brush my teeth, curl my hair, manicure my nails and dab peroxide on my upper lip to bleach the black hairs — all this in less than half an hour.
~ Anne Frank
First I showered off that horrible butt smell you get from being on an airplane. [p. 257]
~ Anne Lamott
If he isn't clean now, I don't know what clean is!
~ Anne McCaffrey
He ate an apple and a little box of raisins from his bag, drank the milk, and went off to the lavatory to floss and brush his teeth.
~ Anne Tyler
Kaiaphas. I see you finally made some friends. You must have learned to use a toothbrush at last. You know it's the whole up and down, back and forth that confuses people…or demons. (Xypher)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You drank my blood? Nick Aye Aeron Dude, that's gross. I hope you brushed your teeth afterward. Saw a dentist. Drank a gallon of Listerine. Nick I told you he wouldn't be angry for it. Nashira
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Life before toilet paper was not worth living.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Effective antibiotics are a linchpin of modern medicine; without them, it all falls apart. We are financing the creation of virulent biological weapons that one day may be turned against us. This alone should be sufficient reason to create more hygienic conditions for animals.
~ John Durant
I propose that a scientifically sound set of hygiene rules could explain why the Jewish God was a jealous, monotheistic God: He could brook no compromise with the filthy practices of rival gods. Famously faceless, abstract, and unsuperstitious, the Jewish God was science.
~ John Durant
as there were no kind of sanitary facilities on the premises, the results were apt to be unsightly and demoralising, to say the least.
~ John Gielgud
If everyone in the world washed their hands properly, a million lives could be saved a year.
~ John Lloyd
To her [Florence Nightingale] chiefly I owed the awakening to the fact that sanitation is the supreme goal of medicine its foundation and its crown.
~ Elizabeth Blackwell
Cuando el río es lento y se cuenta con una buena bicicleta o caballo sí es posible bañarse dos (y hasta tres, de acuerdo con las necesidades higiénicas de cada quién) veces en el mismo río.
~ Augusto Monterroso
Jonathan Van Ness
~ You gotta floss!
As a child, I used to bite my toenails, which is grim. I can still do it.
~ Joe Lycett
I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.
~ Gary Kemp
We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better.
~ Kenneth Williams
doctors & druggists wash each other's hands
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
I didn't wash today. I wasn't dirty. If I'm not dirty, I don't wash. Some weeks I don't have to shower at all. I just groom my three basic areas: teeth, hair, and asshole. And to save time, I use the same brush.
~ George Carlin