Cleanliness

Cleanliness is both the abstract state of being clean and free from dirt, and the process of achieving and maintaining that state.

Quotes

Todo saldrá en la colada.
- All will come out in the washing.
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-1615), I, 20.

(…) you should look to the areas of your countries where people are poverty-stricken and helpless and then do all you can to raise their standard of living, teaching them cleanliness and high morals. To serve the needy truly and from the heart is true service to God.
- Haidakhan Babaji, The Teachings of Babaji, 20 April 1983.

They were kept in the dark, squatting there with nothing to dwell upon beyond the fact they were unclean. Even the touch of their shadow would sour the land, blighting crops that grew there....At the end of their confinement they were led out blinking into the harsh and masculine glare of the sun. Their clothing was taken from them and destroyed. Their anger in darkness turning, unreleased, unspoken, it's mouth a red wound...

Their anger in darkness turning, unreleased, unspoken, it's mouth a red wound, its eyes hungry...hungry for the moon.

I'll purge and leave sack and live cleanly.
- William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I (c. 1597), Act V, scene 4, line 168.

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 122.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
- Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning.

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
- Charles Lamb, Lamb's Suppers, Volume II. Last Chapter.

The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness.
- Talmud. Division of Mishna, as translated by Dr. A. S. Bettelheim. Religious zeal leads to cleanliness, cleanliness to purity, purity to godliness, godliness to humility to the fear of sin. Rabbi Pinhasben-Jaïr—Commentary on the lines from the Talmud. See also Talmudde Jerusalem, by Schwab, IV. 16. Commentary on the treatise Schabbath. Schul—Sentences of Proverbes du Talmud et du Midrasch. 463.

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-winged reapers come.
- Henry Vaughan, The Seed Growing Secretly.

Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."
- John Wesley, Sermon XCII, On Dress. Quoted by Rowland Hill as a saying of Whitefield's.

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