Hygiene Quotes

• Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Others Opinions

  A Room of One's Own (1929) ch. 3

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• Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

  Ezra Pound

  Inspirational, Degrees, Literature

  How to Read pt. 2 (1931)

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• The crown of literature is poetry.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Poetry, Crowns, Literature

  W. Somerset Maugham (2010). “Cakes And Ale”, p.90, Random House

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• Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages.

  Louis Pasteur

  Food, Drinking, Health

  Etudes sur le vin Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. B

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• When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can.

  Samuel Lover

  Men, Way, Scratches

  'Handy Andy' (1842) ch. 36

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  He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fitness, Hope

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• Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality.

  H. L. Mencken

  Medicine, Morality, Corruption

  Prejudices Types of Men

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• Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  House, Healthy, Worldly Life

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• Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Passion, Butterfly, Men

  "Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly art - in pictures", www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2016.

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• Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress.

  George Henry Lewes

  Progress, Literature, Causes

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes.

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Emotional, Practice

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• Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Health, Men, Views

  "All I Survey". Book by G. K. Chesterton, www.theguardian.com. 1933.

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• Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Heart, Risk, Disease

  "For Name's Sake". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 20, 2016.

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• It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state.

  Bruce Schneier

  Technology, Police, Someday

  Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons.

  George Carlin

  School, Jersey, Reason

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• I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.

  Myrna Loy

  Thinking, Common Sense, Carrying On

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• Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. ... The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard them from the consequences of their vices.

  H. L. Mencken

  Science, Men, Medicine

  H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.269, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking, 'If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?'

  Robert Pattinson

  Sexy, Hair, Years

  "An Open Letter to Kristen Stewart" by Shannon Bradley-Colleary, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2012.

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• Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives.

  Camilo Jose Cela

  Literature

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• That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.

  Georg Brandes

  Literature, Way, Problem

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

  Lesley Garrett

  Vocal

  "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

  Jim Carrey

  Personal Hygiene, Packages, Knows

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• The Bible is literature, not dogma.

  George Santayana

  Bible, Religious, Religion

  Benedictus de Spinoza, George Santayana (1910). “Spinoza's Ethics and "De Intellectus Emendatione".”

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• I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Hands, Obsessive Compulsive, Freak

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• The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Blood, People, Age

  Afterthoughts (1931) "Age and Death"

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