Cleanliness Quotes - Page 6

• As for our garments, my Mother did not only delight to see us neat and cleanly, fine and gay, but rich and costly: maintaining us to the heighth of her estate, but not beyond it.

  Margaret Cavendish

  Mother, Pride, Gay

  Margaret Cavendish (2000). “Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader”, p.42, Broadview Press

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• I'm known clean around the Earth.

  Rudolf Wanderone

  Earth, Fats, Known

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• [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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• 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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• 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 doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.

  Francis Bacon

  Doctrine, Carefulness, Godliness

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• Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in.

  Gerry Spence

  Father, Doors, Next

  Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.164, St. Martin's Press

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• Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.

  Charles Dickens

  Art, People, Dirt

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• After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way.

  Lee Konitz

  Simple, Years, Play

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• Our elected officials are able to regulate even the most personal aspects of our lives, from the cleanliness of the air we breathe to the identity of the people we marry. Keeping this in mind, casting a ballot is not just essential - it's practical!

  Maria Rubio

  Air, People, Voting

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• Another night, I dreamed I saw my father sweeping out the barn floor clean, and would not suffer the wheat to be brought in the barn. He appeared to me to be in anger.

  Joanna Southcott

  Father, Anger, Night

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