"Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as……" — Thomas Jefferson
"Nothing is so disgusting to our sex as want of cleanliness and delicacy in yours."
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1,437 Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson has 1,437 quotes on this site.
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Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
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Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your…
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[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able…
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted…
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It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral…
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The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.
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If ever there was a holy war, it was that which saved our liberties and gave us independence.
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We prefer war in all cases to tribute under any form and to any people whatever.
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I have always said that a studious perusal of the sacred volume will make better citizens, better fathers, and better…
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The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
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Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.
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More Cleanliness Quotes
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one of 124 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid…
— Anthony Burgess
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Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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Character must be kept bright as well as clean.
— Lord Chesterfield
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Life has a way of setting things in order and leaving them be. Very tidy, is life.
— Jean Anouilh
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People used to complain that selling a president was like selling a bar of soap. But when you buy soap,…
— David Brooks
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In temperance there is ever cleanliness and elegance.
— Joseph Joubert
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Cleanliness in the cat world is usually a virtue put above godliness.
— Carl Van Vechten
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If cleanliness is next to godliness, surely our cats must go to heaven and sit on the arm of God's…
— Jerry Climer
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But to fly is just like swimming. You do not forget easily. I have been on the ground for more…
— Saburo Sakai
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I use the word nursing for want of a better. It has been limited to signify little more than the…
— Florence Nightingale
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The symptoms or the sufferings generally considered to be inevitable and incident to the disease are very often not symptoms…
— Florence Nightingale
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Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a…
— Victoria Ocampo
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