Tidy Quotes

• Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

  Mark Twain

  Neat And Tidy, Soul, Dresses

  "The Jumping Frog: And 18 Other Stories".

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• After every war someone has to tidy up.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  War

  Wislawa Szymborska (2015). “Poems New and Collected”, p.228, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.

  Jean Anouilh

  Order, Leaving, Way

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• Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Virtue, Symmetry

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

  Zaha Hadid

  Office, Focus, Used

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• I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.

  George Harrison

  Tea, Records, Chaos

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• You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Business, Scratches, News

  Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (2013). “Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond”, p.386, Bantam

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• English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.

  Zadie Smith

  Fall, Writing, Epic

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• I'm very organized and tidy in my home life and I generally do something myself rather than farm it out to somebody else. I don't have an assistant or anything because I think I can do it myself.

  Mark Strong

  Home, Thinking, Assistants

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• I have OCD, which is not fun. I have to be incredibly tidy and organized or it messes with my mind and switches off on me.

  Charlize Theron

  Fun, Mind, Ocd

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• When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

  E. B. White

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Before this distinguished assembly and the world, the bells today proclaim the joyous tidings of the completion of this quietly soaring tower.

  Earl Warren

  Towers, World, Bells

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• Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

  Scott Weiland

  Jealous, Swim, Tides

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• The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

  Samuel Smiles

  Work, Men, Suffering

  Samuel Smiles (1910). “Character. Repr”

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• Stand alone books are nice because they have everything all in one tidy little package. Neverwhere was awesome because you get action, adventure, character development, the exploration of a strange world, PLUS resolution of all the problems and mysteries at the end. No lines no waiting. That's very satisfying. Multi-volume stories are satisfying too, just in a different way.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Nice, Book, Adventure

  Source: aidanmoher.com

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• Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

  Ann Oakley

  Mother, Children, Dedication

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Housewife”, Lane, Allen

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• For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

  Johnny Cash

  Trying, Tides, Turns

  Song: I Walk the Line

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• I tend not to trust people who live in very tidy houses. I know that on the surface there is nothing wrong with a person being well-ordered and disciplined. Nothing, except that it leaves the impression of that person having lived in the confines of a stark institution which, although he or she has long since left, remains within.

  Jack Dee

  Long, People, House

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• No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.

  Paul Gallico

  Baseball, Punishment, Games

  Paul Gallico (2015). “Farewell to Sport”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.

  Boris Johnson

  Night, Cheese, Middle

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  May, Tides

  "Southey's Colloquies on Society" by Thomas B. Macaulay, 1830.

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• I have a temper on me that could hold back tides.

  Shirley Manson

  Tides, Temper

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• Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

  John Muir

  Wisdom, Nature, Autumn

  Atlantic Monthly, Apr. 1898

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• I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.

  Rafael Nadal

  Mother, Home, Two

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