CLEANLINESS

Related Subjects: Bathing, Dirt, Fastidiousness, Purity, Washing

1. Cleanliness is next to impossible.—Anonymous
   

2. Whoever eats bread without first washing his hands is as though he had sinned with a harlot.—The Babylonian Talmud
   

3. Cleanness of the body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.—BACON, Advancement of Learning
   

4. When a man reproached him [Diogenes] for going into unclean places, he said, "The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them."—DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Diogenes
   

5. The daily ablutions of an infant are no more natural nor necessary than would be the process of taking a fish out of water every day and covering it with dirt in order to make it thrive more vigorously in its own element. . . Water is not the natural habitat of humanity.—MARY BAKER EDDY, Science & Health
   

6. Cleanliness is a great virtue; but when it is carried to such an extent that you cannot find your books and papers which you left carefully arranged on your table—when it gets to be a monomania with man or woman—it becomes a bore.—CHARLES B. FAIRBANKS, My Unknown Chum
   

7. Beauty will fade and perish, but personal cleanliness is practically undying, for it can be renewed whenever it discovers symptoms of decay.—W. S. GILBERT, The Sorcerer

8. Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, thy clothes, and thy habitation.—GEORGE HERBERT, Jacula Prudentum
   

9. Above all things, keep clean. It is not necessary to be a pig in order to raise one.—ROBERT INGERSOLL, About Fanning in Illinois
   

10. One keep-clean is better than ten make-cleans.—Proverb
    

11. A new broom sweeps clean.—Proverb
    

12. Bid them wash their faces, And keep their teeth clean.—SHAKESPEARE, Coriolanus
    

13. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."—JOHN WESLEY, Sermons