(899 quotes found)
“Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.”
Charles Dickens
“This is like the town council just hired a new marshal to clean up the town, ... I guarantee you, if I stay here long enough, they'll get rid of me, too.”
Bob Knight
“The hand is not so well adorned by ornaments as by charitable offerings; one does not become clean by smearing sandalwood paste upon the body as by taking a bath; one does not become so much satisfied by dinner as by having respect shown to him; and salvation is not attained by self-adornment as by cultivation of spiritual knowledge.”
Chanakya
“The Saxon shits in his breech, The cleanly Briton in the hedge”
Welsh Proverb
“With her high pale brow under her faded brown hair, she was like a rock washed clean by years of her husband's absences at conventions, dinners, committee meetings or simply at the office.”
Louis Auchincloss
“Everything's been so overembellished, I think there's a move to a more clean, refined approach, although not like the minimalism of the '90s, ... having a sorbet after a heavy meal.”
George Sharp
“C-l-e-a-n, clean, verb active, to make bright, to scour. W-i-n, win, d-e-r, der, winder, a casement. When the boy knows this out of the book, he goes and does it.”
“We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?”
Lee Iacocca
“If they had told me I was the janitor and would have to mop up and clean the toilets after the show in order to play, I probably would have done it.”
Bruce Springsteen
“Bid them wash their faces,And keep their teeth clean.”
William Shakespeare
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