Baths Quotes - Page 17

• Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.

  Lin Yutang

  Dog, Winter, Men

  Yutang Lin (1939). “My country and my people”

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• When I dance with him, one of my great loves, he is absolutely human, and when he turns to dip me or I step on his foot because we are both leading, I know that one of us will die first and the other will suffer. The slow dance of what’s to come and the slow dance of insomnia pouring across the floor like bath water.

  Matthew Dickman

  Insomnia, Feet, Water

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• Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.

  Mervyn Levy

  Song, Art, Freedom

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• This week, a 95-year-old woman married a 98-year-old man to become the world's oldest newlyweds. They're registered at Bed, Sponge Bath and Beyond.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Men, Years, Age

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• Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.

  Eamon

  Should Have, Hot, Half Time

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• They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

  David Lange

  Running, Party, Leader

  "Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange" compiled by David Barber, 1987.

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• Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.

  Charlton Heston

  Rose, Hollywood, Film

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• A man looketh on his little one as a being of better hope; in himself ambition is dead, but it bath a resurrection in his son.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Children, Ambition, Son

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• My working hours are not that conventional. I often get up about two in the morning and do a painting, and then I'll have a bath, and then I often feel very hungry around 4am, so I'll go into Soho and have a meal somewhere like Balans. That's what I love about living here - there's always life around me.

  Stella Vine

  Morning, Two, Meals

  "My Home: Stella Vine, Artist" by Tessa Williams-Akoto, www.independent.co.uk. November 30, 2005.

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• I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Time, Distance, Sleep

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• If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.

  Bill Bryson

  Nice, Sleep, Europe

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• I'm not trying to win an award for being the best vegetarian, just want to be healthy. Take a salt bath. Do things that my parents were never able to do. I'm blessed to do anything I want so I decide to take the best care of my body and my family in the same way. Holistically. Vitally.

  Erykah Badu

  Blessed, Winning, Awards

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 8, 2013.

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• [On growing up in a large family with little money:] ... to take a bath ... we just had a pan of water and we'd wash down as far as possible, and we'd wash up as far as possible. Then, when somebody'd clear the room, we'd wash possible.

  Dolly Parton

  Growing Up, Water, Littles

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• I'm obsessed with cleanliness for myself, so I will take a bath three times a day, sometimes a steam twice a day in addition to that.

  Simon Cowell

  Three, Sometimes, Cleanliness

  "How Simon Cowell Unwinds (and Stays Clean!) at Home". Interview with Liz Raftery and Blaine Zuckerman, people.com. September 30, 2011.

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• I need a bath." He chuckled. "You smell of smoke, as do I." The duke turned, leaning heavily on his cane. "Jameson, open the carriage door. We shall return to the house." Beth smiled up at Christian. "Shall we adjourn to the house to get some ointment for your hands and a bath, my love?" His eyes lit. "A bath?" Grandfather snorted. "Someone send to London for a special license! Now.

  Karen Hawkins

  Love, Christian, Eye

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• It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration, Lamps, Failing

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• Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Light, Meditation

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• To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as dropping into the water off the concrete edge of the Fitzroy Baths.

  Helen Garner

  Summer, Morning, Reading

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• I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament.

  Ogden Nash

  Tests, Chill, Cleanliness

  'Samson Agonistes' (1942)

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• You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.

  Martial

  Giving, Wish, Three

  Martial, Henry George Bohn (1914). “The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources”

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• I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Sleep, Rocks, Chairs

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• This is a natural evolution, building a complete bath ensemble program and the Joseph Abboud bath brand within the Creative Bath family of licensed programs.

  Bob Weiss

  Creative, Ensemble, Evolution

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• Those who take refuge behind theological barbed wire fences, quite often wish they could have more freedom of thought, but fear the change to the great ocean of truth as they would a cold bath.

  Luther Burbank

  Change, Truth, Freedom

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• Valentine's Day money-saving tips: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. In place of bubble bath, use lavender-scented dish-washing liquid. Forget rose petals. Sprinkle the bed with sliced beets!

  David Letterman

  Valentine, Rose, Together

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• Love is a pig dressed as a clown sitting in a bath full of beans: pretty much amazing, once you get over the shock.

  Craig Stone

  Love Is, Pigs, Sitting

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