I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Mahatma Gandhi

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If by the quarter of the twentieth century godliness wasn’t next to something more interesting than cleanliness, it might be time to reevaluate our notions of godliness.

Tom Robbins

Tags: cleanliness godliness



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Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.

Erma Bombeck

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There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.

Erma Bombeck

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Juliet's version of cleanliness was next to godliness, which was to say it was erratic, past all understanding and was seldom seen.

Terry Pratchett

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Though outwardly Kristina maintained that a clean room was a symptom of a diseased mind (for how could she, while studying the world's greatest thinkers, be bothered with such mundane earthly issues as cleaning?), inwardly she hated untidyness and made a point of spending as little time in the room as possible.

Paullina Simons

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Cleanliness', chuckled Sir Benjamin, noting his great niece's delighted smile as her eyes rested upon him, 'comes next to godliness, eh, Maria?

Elizabeth Goudge

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Clean up a pigsty," she commented one evening, "and if the creatures in it still have pig-minds and pig-desires, soon it will be the same old pigsty again.

Catherine Marshall

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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

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Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.

Brian W. Aldiss

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