Quotes About Bathing

Underneath my stiffened gown Is the softness of a woman bathing in a marble basin, A basin in the midst of hedges grown So thick, she cannot see her lover hiding, But she guesses he is near, And the sliding of the water Seems the stroking of a dear Hand upon her.

And I love a bath. I've had weeks where I've had a minimum of two a day.

Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.

I was just bathing." "Aren't you the fortunate man. Bathing." "Only a shower.

Bless you,' said Yennefer, not at all bothered by Vilgefortz's portentous words. 'Where did you catch such an awful chill, good sir? Did you stand in a draught after bathing?

In the bathhouse, he was annoyed by the expression of the attendant, looking at his witcher medallion and his sword lying on the edge of the tub. He was annoyed by the fact that the attendant did not offer him a whore. He had no intention of availing himself of one, but in bathhouses everybody was offered them, so he was annoyed by the exception being made for him.

I'm all right now," I said, "but leave me alone. I'm going down to the river to bathe." I took seven steps, and then someone must have pulled out the plug, because I gurgled, everything swirled, and the world ran away down the drain.

They're too tired for bathing, but they're not too tired for dreams. For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning. The longing of dreams draws the dead, and the city hall to many dreams.

Steven Fairfax was nothing but a saddle-bum—maybe he was even wanted by the law—and bathing him was not a ladylike thing to do. Still, there was the way he smiled. And that glint of mischief in his eyes, overpowering the pain he must be enduring. And the soft, distinctly Southern way he spoke—it was like listening to warm rain fall on the summerhouse roof. Emma

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: 'Boy, you are skinny, aren't you?' I said: 'Honey, I'd like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.'

I mention this fact as tending to support what I have often heard stated, namely, that a shark's sense of smell is so keen that, if men ever bathe in seas where they are found, a shark is almost sure to appear directly afterwards.

I wonder who she was, said Zero. Who? Mary Lou, said Zero. Stanley smiled. I guess she was once a real person on a real lake. It's hard to imagine. I bet she was pretty, said Zero. Somebody must have loved her a lot, to name a boat after her. Yeah, said Stanley. I bet she looked great in a bathing suit, sitting in the boat while her boyfriend rowed.

I did not draw a conscious parallel to my own sexuality, much less my father's. But the immersion -- like green dishwashing liquid bathing a cuticle -- left me supple and open to possibility.

Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.

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

He knew he would think better clearer thoughts after bathing in the sea. His mother had believed in the good effects of bathing, but she had died so young.

To accuse the American male of not bathing in Paris is merely to flatter him.

What?" He was frowning now. "No bathing suit? Are you sure you're not a nun?" "Some nuns swim.

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.

Shudder, in fact, is not quite the word for the feeling. Feeling is not quite the word for the feeling. How's bathing at knifepoint in the phlegm of the dead? Is that a feeling?

If you think about it now, it's kind of ridiculous. All these hot girls on Baywatch in tiny little red bathing suits running around saving lives.

Susan bathing, surprised by the two old man. In the background the lapidation of the condemned. (Lapidation is good; it is much more elegant than stoning.) St.