Cleanliness Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

10 Cleanliness Quotes
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“For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Advancement of Learning
“He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Ecclesiasticus (ch. XIII, v. 1)
“All will come out in the washing. [Sp., Todo saldra en al colada.]”
Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Quotes
Source: Don Quixote (I, 20)
“God loveth the clean.”
Koran Quotes
Source: ch. IX
“If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!”
Charles Lamb (used pseudonym Elia) Quotes
Source: Lamb's Suppers (vol. II, last chapter)
“I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less; for I'll purge, and leave sack, and live cleanly, as a nobleman should do.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Falstaff at V, iv)
“The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.”
The Talmud Quotes
Source: Talmud--Division of Mishna
“Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.”
Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) Quotes
Source: A Curious Dream, "Facts concerning the Recent Resignation"
“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.”
Henry Vaughan ("The Silurist") Quotes
Source: The Seed Growing Secretly
“Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."”
John Wesley Quotes
Source: Sermon (XCII, On Dress)