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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 (Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37; Rincewind, #8))
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
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
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 (Great Expectations)
Listen to me, Siddalee, and listen good: There is no excuse to let your looks go, no matter how poor you are. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, but honey let me tell you, ugliness will get you nowhere.
Rebecca Wells (Little Altars Everywhere)
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 (Seven Simple Steps to Personal Freedom: An Owner's Manual for Life)
Sweat cleaned you as effectively as water. But this was the race which had invented the proverb that cleanliness was next to godliness - cleanliness, not purity.
Graham Greene (The Power and the Glory)
Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)
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 (The Little White Horse)
Let your hands be clean; God loves clean hands and no wonder cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Israelmore Ayivor (The Great Hand Book of Quotes)
not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.
Maya Angelou (I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings)
literature instead of cleanliness was next to godliness.
Stephen King (Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #2))
Cleanliness is next to godliness, whatever that means. But the trouble with that sort of approach to life is that it never ends. Yes, you can take time to pick the weeds from the pavement outside and scrub your skirting board and make sure there’s no dust collecting in any evil corners but you had to keep on doing it. If I had to do it all this week and then again next week and then the week after that, why not just leave it till next month? Or preferably next year?
Helen Harper (Spirit Witch (The Lazy Girl's Guide To Magic, #3))
Cleanliness is next to godliness”? That seems a little extreme, doesn’t it? Cleanliness, not kindness or compassion?
Rachel Hoffman (Unf*ck Your Habitat: You're Better Than Your Mess)
Cleanliness is next to Godliness,” but baptism of the body, unless followed by baptism of the mind, becomes practically meaningless. If we bathe and thus purify our bodies, we will find that our mind will temporarily become purified, but unless we change our soul’s wickedness by calmness, and meditation, and constant spiritual vigilance, we will remain the same old devils with bad habits in spite of the temporary purifying effect of the water on our bodies.
Paramahansa Yogananda (The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You (Self-Realization Fellowship) 2 Volume Set)
Good hygiene enhanced sound well-being.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The
Maya Angelou (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings)
Items from the bathroom should not be moved to or stored in any other part of the house except for a place designated for storage. And even then, the bathroom item should be cleaned before stored.
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr. (The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic)
There are two types of cleanliness: organic cleanliness and chemical cleanliness. Often chemical cleanliness is toxic and harmful. Natural or organic cleanliness focus on maintaining harmony with nature.
Amit Ray (Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life)
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 (Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37))
Organization is a masculine trait, cleanliness a feminine one. Cleanliness is next to godliness because manliness is godliness.
A.D. Aliwat (Alpha)
Cleanliness is next to godliness, my gran used to say, and I believe that’s a better tenet to live by than most.
Nita Prose (The Maid (Molly the Maid, #1))
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)
Peterson is the new Winthrop. The Puritans are on the march again, furiously cleaning their rooms because cleanliness is next to Godliness.
Joe Dixon (Clean Up Your Room!: The Eternal Spotless Mind of Jordan Peterson)
A soldier in the 5th Division wrote home, “They say cleanliness is next to Godliness. I say it’s next to impossible.… If I am killed and go to hell it can’t be any worse than infantry combat.
Rick Atkinson (The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe 1944-1945 (The Liberation Trilogy))
Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanliness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)
And they do say that cleanliness is next to Godliness; and sometimes, when I have seen the pure white clouds billowing in the sky after a rain, I used to think that it was as if the angels themselves were hanging out their washing;
Margaret Atwood (Alias Grace)
Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in unclean garments was a battle that encouraged surrender.
Dan Groat (Monarchs and Mendicants (Gifford Ulrich, #1))
The love for God is the love for nature.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
in Eastern Europe computer privacy is like cleanliness in America: next to godliness. “So
Stephen King (Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges Trilogy, #1))
room confirmed the view I had of myself. I always felt as if I had been placed in storage in this house. However, regardless of what it was and what it had been, the room had to be kept as immaculate as any other. My grandmother was fully convinced that cleanliness was next to godliness and was fond of chanting it at me whenever she ordered me to polish or wash
V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1))
I have a conscience; and conscience is always anxiously explanatory. You, on the contrary, feel that a man who discusses his conscience is much like a woman who discusses her modesty. The only moral force you condescend to parade is the force of your wit: the only demand you make in public is the demand of your artistic temperament for symmetry, elegance, style, grace, refinement, and the cleanliness which comes next to godliness if not before it. But my conscience is the genuine pulpit article: it annoys me to see people comfortable when they ought to be uncomfortable; and I insist on making them think in order to bring them to conviction of sin. If you don't like my preaching you must lump it. I really cannot help it.
George Bernard Shaw (Man and Superman)
Cleanliness is not next to godliness, it is godliness. When the mind is cleansed of all primordial impurities, then and then only real godliness of actual practical potential begins to manifest.
Abhijit Naskar (Conscience over Nonsense)
What was it she wanted to think about? Here it was, all she ever wanted: a free mind. She wanted to figure out. With which unknown should she begin? Why are we here, we four billion equals who seem significant to ourselves alone? She rejected religion. She knew Christianity stressed the Ten Commandments, Jesus Christ as the only son of God who walked on water and rose up after dying on the cross, the Good Samaritan, and cleanliness is next to godliness. Buddhism and Taoism could handle all those galaxies, but Taoism was self-evident—although it kept slipping her mind—and Buddhism made you just sit there. Judaism wanted her like a hole in the head. And religions all said—early or late—that holiness was within. Either they were crazy or she was. She had looked long ago and learned: not within her. It was fearsome down there, a crusty cast-iron pot. Within she was empty. She would never poke around in those terrors and wastes again, so help her God.
Annie Dillard (The Maytrees)
There are those who get out and live life, and there are those who stay home and clean their house. And there are those that call one virtuous and one whimsical and irresponsible. And there are those like us that call it your choice in the way you live your life. You get to choose. Nobody else.
Abraham Hicks
Сравниться с ПХД может только наряд на кухню, но там все сразу обожрутся — дышать плохо, ходить того хуже, и уже трудовая страда не в радость. А трудовая — она страда, потому что на ПХД работают все без исключения. Ну, неодинаково, конечно. Одни перетаскивают кровати и моют пол, другие перетаскивают то же самое и носят первым воду, третьи подметают и крошат мыло, четвёртые — тоже крошат мыло рядом с третьими, но с ними не подметают, пятые — всеми командуют и всем показывают, как делать. Ну, шестые командуют пятыми. Ну, пускай седьмые дают общие указания шестым, сверху, так сказать. Но даже те, кто лишь пьёт в каптёрке чиф, помнят о ПХД. Пьют и помнят. Никто не остаётся совершенно в стороне.
Андрей Ильенков (Несгибаемая рота, или Сны полка)
Cleanliness is not next to godliness, it is godliness.
Abhijit Naskar (Conscience over Nonsense)
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Lailah Gifty Akita
Cleanliness is next to godliness is an old wives' saying but there's a lot in it. It wouldn't surprise me if one slid down the road to Hell all the quicker if it's slimy with grease; kitchen grease and the grease of an unwashed skin.
Elizabeth Goudge (The Rosemary Tree)
Every Saturday, my brother and I helped our parents with household chores, such as dusting, vacuuming, and cleaning. My dad often said, “Cleanliness is next to godliness,” and after meeting Jase, I quickly realized that the Robertson family did not regard this proverb as highly as my family did. I remember one Saturday when Jase called me and asked if we could go out that night. I told him I’d like to but I had to dust first. “Dust?” he asked. “What does that mean?” “You know, dust the furniture.” Silence. “Like, take a rag, spray Pledge onto the furniture, and wipe it clean.” Yes, I actually had to explain to Jase that the word dust could be used as a verb as well as a noun.
Missy Robertson (Blessed, Blessed ... Blessed: The Untold Story of Our Family's Fight to Love Hard, Stay Strong, and Keep the Faith When Life Can't Be Fixed)
Healthy home, healthy life.
Lailah Gifty Akita (Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind)
Far beyond the laws on leprosy, it’s fair to say the Mosaic Law is obsessed with cleanliness, stipulating a lengthy code of personal hygiene and public health—accounting for some 15–20% of the 613 commandments. Though many commandments applied only to priests, the practices often came to permeate Jewish culture, fulfilling the injunction: “ ‘And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation’ ” (Exodus 19:6). Jewish scholars have written about the importance of ritual hygiene in Judaism for a very long time (it’s one of the oldest themes in written scholarship), and the tight link between physical and spiritual purity led to the religious proverb “Cleanliness is next to godliness.
John Durant (The Paleo Manifesto: Ancient Wisdom for Lifelong Health)
Cleanliness is said to be next to godliness
Amy Leigh Mercree (The Healing Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to Positive Vibes)
Cleanliness was not next to godliness in the United States Navy; it was godliness.
Alvin Kernan (Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's Odyssey in World War II: A Bluejacket's Odyssey in World War Two (Yale Library of Military History))
Cleanliness is not next to godliness nowadays, for cleanliness is made an essential and godliness is regarded as an offence.
G.K. Chesterton (Selected Essays (Classic Library))
Who cares that I’ve never dusted a day in my life without being forced? Cleanliness is next to godliness, right?
Quinn Loftis (Prince of Wolves (The Grey Wolves, #1))
The next time she scolded me, I said if I cleaned the table any more I would take the color out of the wood and Miss Kizer snapped back, “Cleanliness is next to Godliness and don’t you forget it.
Jim Murphy (My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher (Dear America))
Cleanliness is next to outwardness And goodness is next to godliness
Yeth Bisto (BUHAY PINOY SA AMERIKA (FAITH Book 1))
Cleanliness is next to Godliness but Godliness is next to Loneliness..
Ankala Subbarao