We all need a little boost sometimes when it comes to housework and cleaning. So I’ve put together a little motivational post with some amazing quotes and proverbs on cleanliness to get you reaching for the feather duster!
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Proverbs on cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to godliness ~ it’s important to practice cleanliness as it is valued as much as worshipping God.
One who maintains cleanliness keeps away diseases ~ if you keep your home clean you keep away disease.
A silk dress doesn’t mean clean undergarments.
The clean person is not the one that runs away from dirt but one who takes the time and effort to tidy up a dirty environment.
A new broom sweeps clean.
Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water.
A clean conscience makes a soft pillow.
A clean hand wants no washing .
It is at home, not in public, that one washes his dirty linen.
Cleanliness makes it easier to see the details.
Happiness spring-cleans the heart.
Clean water is the best medicine.
If you want to sweep the steps clean, start at the top.
Keep calm and maintain cleanliness.
To every bird, his own nest is beautiful.
One feels good in the kings house, but one feels better in one’s own house.
A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows all the corners.
There is no place like home ~ it’s the best place to be .
Flowing water never gets dirty.
Open the window , change the air.
The purpose of art, is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
Smack a tray of water and you get to wash your face.
Dirty water does not wash clean.
Life has its way of putting things in order. Very tidy is life.
If a child’s hands are clean, he can eat with elders.
Ego is like dust in the mind, without cleaning that dust you can’t see.
Those who get to the river early drink the cleanest water.
Cleanliness needn’t involve costliness.
Housekeeping is like being caught in a revolving door.
Who walks in the mud, at some point must clean his feet.
The world is our house. Keep it clean.
A clean place is a safe place.
Housework can’t kill you but why take the chance?
Cleaning and organizing is a practice, not a project.
When one hand washes another, both become clean.
Clean your own doorstep before you clean someone else’s.
Clean as God’s fingertips.
Dirt is dirtiest upon clean white linen.
Cleanliness is the luxury of the poor.
The best asset is a clean conscience.
Clean your own yard first before asking others to clean theirs.
A clean fast is better than a dirty breakfast.
Quotes On Cleanliness
To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.
Dejan Stojanovic
Cleanliness is the scourge of art.
Craig Brown
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 untidiness and made a point of spending as little time in the room as possible.
Paullina Simons, Red Leaves
Environmental cleanliness begins with each individual desire to be clean.
Lailah Gifty Akita
If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.
Ernie Pyle
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
Mahatma Gandhi
Cleanliness beings with purity of your own mind, thoughts and heart.
Vishwas Chavan
Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.
Joseph Addison
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain
There is just something about starting your day with something luxurious like a bath.
Erin Heatherton
Civilization is the space man has placed between himself and his own droppings.
Brian W. Aldiss
Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you’re not really teaching them anything.
Emeril Lagasse
After all, perhaps dirt isn’t really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.
Agatha Christie
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
William Osler
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happy living within that environment.
Marie Kondo
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, Christy
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Napoléon Bonaparte
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
Anthony Burgess
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as your shirt.
Francis Picabia
Nothing inspires cleanliness more than an unexpected guest.
Radhika Mundra
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
Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.
Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success
You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty
Cecil Baxter
PJ O’rouke
Everyone wants to save the earth; no one wants to help mom do the dishes.
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
Clean your finger before you point at my spots.
Benjamin Franklin
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education and like most great things you must cultivate a taste for them.
Benjamin Disraeli.
What is elegance? Soap and water!
Cecil Beaton
Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn’t even in the same neighbourhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.
Erma Bombeck
Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
Carl Van Vechten
Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess
Jillian Lauren
He longed for cleanliness and tidiness: it was hard to find peace in the middle of
Robin Hobb, City of Dragonsdisorder .
Cleanliness is a state of purity, clarity, and precision
Suze Orman
A short time after tidying, their space is a disorganized mess. The cause is not a lack of skills but rather lack of awareness and the inability to make tidying a regular habit.
Marie Kondō, The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Cleanliness is half the faith.
Emaan
Members of a family will keep their houses clean, but they will not be interested in the neighbour’s .
M.K Gandhi
What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Cleanliness is the hallmark of perfect standards and the best quality inspector is the conscience.
J.R.D Tata
Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Don’t call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
Aaron Hill
Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes or habitation
Benjamin franklin
I have discovered the secret to keeping a clean house ~ never allow your husband or children to enter it.
Anonymous
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