Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.
Cleanliness
For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.
Bacon—Advancement of Learning.
Todo saldrá en la colada.
All will come out in the washing.
Cervantes.—Don Quixote. I. 20.
He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith.
Ecclesiasticus. XIII. 1.
God loveth the clean.
Koran. Ch. LX.
If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
Lamb—Lamb’s Suppers. Vol. II. Last Chapter.
I’ll purge and leave sack and live cleanly.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act V. Sc. 4. L. 168.
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.