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Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I do a lot of vocal hygiene. -- Lesley Garrett
Irony is the hygiene of the mind. -- Elizabeth Bibesco
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. -- H. L. Mencken
I'm a hygiene freak. I'm like obsessive-compulsive when it comes to washing your hands. -- Kelly Clarkson
Hygiene is important. That's one of my failings. So I'm always being called on that. -- Dan Aykroyd
It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state. -- Bruce Schneier
Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me. -- Jim Carrey
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene. -- Myrna Loy
The Secretary of Hygiene or Physical Culture will be far more important in the cabinet of the President of the United States who holds office in the year 2035 than the Secretary of War. -- Nikola Tesla
War, the World's Only Hygiene -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
I went to Bath and Body Works this morning, because I really needed a shower. Hygiene is important to society, I have discovered. -- Jarod Kintz
(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People. -- James Joyce
Over the years it [the National Committee for Mental Hygiene] has championed for the promotion of 'mental health' despite the fact that nobody knows what it is or how to do it. -- E. Fuller Torrey
I love oral hygiene. -- Eden Sher
The crown of literature is poetry. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The Bible is literature, not dogma. -- George Santayana
Wine is the most healthful and most hygienic of beverages. -- Louis Pasteur
Literature is the denunciation of the times in which one lives. -- Camilo Jose Cela
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. -- Ezra Pound
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature. -- Ravi Shankar
My mom is at my house every day, and she nags me about everything, especially hygiene. -- Shia LaBeouf
That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems. -- Georg Brandes
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. -- Virginia Woolf
Keep your own house and its surroundings pure and clean. This hygiene will keep you healthy and benefit your worldly life. -- Sathya Sai Baba
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it. -- Vaclav Havel
I'm a massive fragrance fan - I think fragrance is part of someone's hygiene, and I'm a big believer in leaving an impression through scent. -- Rita Ora
I did sleep on the floor of my office sometimes. I didn't brush my teeth as often as I should have. I think my hygiene has improved quite a bit. -- Martin Shkreli
The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me. -- Kate Mulgrew
If you have difficulty sleeping or are not getting enough sleep or sleep of good quality, you need to learn the basics of sleep hygiene, make appropriate changes, and possibly consult a sleep expert. -- Andrew Weil
I've had my fair share of colds, which last longer than they should and can cause wheezing, so I avoid people who are sneezing like the plague and am scrupulous about hygiene and hand-washing. -- Kevin McCloud
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. -- Samuel Lover
Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent. -- Erica Jong
I don't think I would have been great in the 17th century. I would have enjoyed the frocks, and certainly some of the food would have been appealing, but the disease and hygiene would have worried me. -- Peter Capaldi
Rules governing defecation, hygiene, and pollution exist in every culture at every period in history. It may in fact be the foundation of civilization: What is toilet training if not the first attempt to turn a child into an acceptable member of society? -- Rose George
The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good. -- Rachel Cusk
To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer that part of yourself the following simple wishes: 'May you be well. May you be happy. May you be free from suffering.' Repeat this until you actually mean it. -- Martha Beck
Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. ... The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard them from the consequences of their vices. -- H. L. Mencken
All mental hygiene is based on the core practice of doing nothing. Most of us are good at wasting time, staring at the wall while telling ourselves we should be working. We call this doing nothing, but our brains are furiously active. We think constantly, and our thinking is often rife with distress. -- Martha Beck
The baby looks at things all day without winking; that is because his eyes are not focused on any particular object. He goes without knowing where he is going, and stops without knowing what he is doing. He merges himself within the surroundings and moves along with it. These are the principles of mental hygiene. -- Zhuangzi
In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom. -- Mandy Moore
I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. Even today, I go into these things where I'm supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I'm literally asking, 'If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?' -- Robert Pattinson
It is beyond doubt that the chief motive of Vegetarianism is the humane one. Questions of hygiene and of economy both play their part, and an important part, in a full discussion of food reform; but the feeling which underlies and animates the whole movement is the instinctive horror of butchery, especially the butchery of the more highly organized animals, so human, so near akin to man. -- Henry Stephens Salt
One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene. -- Tahir Shah
Axiomatization is what one does last, it's rubbish. It's the hygiene of mathematics, axiomatization. -- Serge Lang
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong. -- Hermann Weyl
It's important to practice good hygiene, At least if you wanna run with my team. -- Del tha Funkee Homosapien
Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes. -- Mallory Ortberg
When I got out of high school they retired my jersey, but it was for hygiene and sanitary reasons. -- George Carlin
Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources. -- James Wright
Everyone should occasionally break the law in some small and delightful way. It's good for the hygiene of the brain. -- Terry Pratchett
Money doesn't mean that you are educated, have manners, class or even have good hygiene. All it means is . . . you have money! -- Tina Louise
We will glorify war-the world's only hygiene, milliterism, patriotism , the destructive gesture of freedom-bringers, beautiful ideas worth dying for, and scorn for woman -- Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Being sleep-derived not only hurts you at work, it hurts your health. You need to value yourself enough to have good sleep hygiene. -- Marty Nemko
Basically, it is your self-esteem that shapes the choice of your job, female, friends, and how you take care of yourself (health/hygiene/hobby's)! -- Mika
There has to be some kind of personal hygiene bar that a person needs to clear in order for a relationship to be successful. -- Mallory Ortberg
Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning. -- Aldous Huxley
If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls. -- Greg Mortenson
People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters. -- Jonathan Adler
Values are related to our emotions, just as we practice physical hygiene to preserve our physical health, we need to observe emotional hygiene to preserve a healthy mind and attitudes. -- Dalai Lama
The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature. -- Roger Ebert
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not ready for this level of oral hygiene. -- Bill Bryson
One realizes how we take water for granted and how important it is to have it in order to stay alive. Beyond the drinking of it, let's not forget the hygiene. -- Kim Basinger
We no longer know each other. Hell, I barely know myself these days. I brush my teeth and look in the mirror and think, Who is this guy taking care of my oral hygiene? -- Jarod Kintz

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