Cleanliness Quotes - Page 6

• All fear of 'offensive' speech is bourgeois and reactionary. Historically, profane or bawdy language was common in both the upper and the lower classes, who lived together in rural areas amid the untidy facts of nature. Notions of propriety and decorum come to the fore in urbanized periods ruled by an expanding middle class, which is obsessed with cleanliness, respectability, and conformism.

  Camille Paglia

  Class, Together, Rural Areas

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• How our governments need standards of integrity! How our communities need yardsticks to measure decency! How our neighborhoods need models of beauty and cleanliness! How our schools need continued encouragement and assistance to maintain high educational standards! Rather than spend time complaining about the direction in which these institutions are going, we need to exert our influence in shaping the right direction. A small effort by a few can result in so much good for all of mankind.

  L. Tom Perry

  Encouragement, Integrity, Educational

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• I'm gonna perform on one of the nights. Good clean fun; we're not going to jail. For the record.

  Luther Campbell

  Fun, Night, Jail

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• Over time, the federal government should move the nation to a single standard, clean-burning gasoline.

  Mark Kirk

  Moving, Government, Burning

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• Night fell clean and cold in Dublin, and wind moaned beyond my room as if a million pipes played the air.

  Patricia Cornwell

  Night, Air, Wind

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• There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.

  Theodore Dalrymple

  People, Vices, Misery

  Theodore Dalrymple (2006). “Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy”

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• When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Sound, Mess, Ifs

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• Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

  Roy Barnes

  Party, People, Political

  Roy Barnes Addresses Georgia Senate on Flag Issue, www.cnn.com. January 30, 2001.

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• A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  May, England, Englishmen

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.48

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• Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood.

  Erma Bombeck

  Toasters, Next, Neighborhood

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

  John Burns

  Mind, Three, Drink

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• But I never cleaned thoroughly enough, my reorganization proved to be haphazard, the disgraces came unfailingly to light, and it was clear how we failed, how disastrously we fell short of that ideal of order and cleanliness, household decency which I as much as anybody else believed in.

  Alice Munro

  Light, Order, Reorganization

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• Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.

  Francis Bacon

  Wings, White, Dumb

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• The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.

  Rem Koolhaas

  New York, Sex, Squares

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• I'm known clean around the Earth.

  Rudolf Wanderone

  Earth, Fats, Known

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• Yes, I love white, and I'd wear it all the time if I could. Some people think I have an issue with cleanliness, but to me it's just so pretty.

  Sandra Lee

  Thinking, White, Issues

  "Sandra Lee Talks To Vogue About Her Belly, Favorite Designers & Marrying Andrew Cuomo", www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2011.

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• Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Heart, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

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• Feverishly we cleared away the remaining last scraps of rubbish on the floor of the passage before the doorway, until we had only the clean sealed doorway before us.

  Howard Carter

  Doorways, Lasts, Rubbish

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• Women are dirt searchers; their greatest worth is irradicating rings on collars and tables. Never mind real-estate boards' corruption and racism, here's your soapsuds. Everything she is doing is peripheral, expendable, crucial, and non-negotiable. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Real, Racism, Mind

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• [Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base of another's nature is revealed to him. The unclean are therefore ill at ease hi his presence

  Georg Brandes

  Lying, Ease, Vivid

  Georg Brandes (2015). “Friedrich Nietzsche (English Edition)”, p.57, WILLIAM HEINEMANN

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• In my experience, Cupid's arrows rarely strike two people with the same definition of cleanliness. One partner usually feels like he or she is being asked to live in a furniture exhibit in the British Museum. The other partner remains convinced that he or she is forced to contend with the human version of Hurricane Gilbert.

  Margo Kaufman

  Museums, Two, Arrows

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• One who dresses in rags that have been washed clean dresses cleanly to be sure, but raggedly nonetheless.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Rags, Dresses, Has Beens

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• ...I think the Americans are the only people who have good beds. I consider the American bedroom unparalleled for freshness, comfort, and cleanliness. It is worth going all over Europe in order to come home to one's own bed.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Travel, Home, Thinking

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• At last I came to college. I rushed for it with the outstretched arms of youth's aching hunger to give and take of life's deepest, and highest, and I came against the solid wall of the well-fed, well-dressed world - the frigid whitewashed wall of cleanliness. ... How I pinched, and scraped, and starved myself, to save enough to come to college! Every cent of the tuition fee I paid was drops of sweat and blood from underpaid laundry work. And what did I get for it? A crushed spirit, a broken heart, a stinging sense of poverty that I never felt before.

  Anzia Yezierska

  Education, Disappointment, Wall

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• The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

  Sandy Koufax

  Sports, Jobs, Games

  "How Life Imitates the World Series: An Inquiry Into the Game". Book by Thomas Boswell, 1982.

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