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Your Quotes for 18 September 2005 - Cleanliness

Iowa's Elmer Maytag was born on this day in 1883, and went on to develop the first home washing machine. Tomorrow we observe the birth of William Hesketh Lever in 1851. With his brother he developed the first soap made from vegetable oils and created the Lever Brothers empire (now Unilever). Today's theme just had to be Cleanliness.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door and the whole world will be clean.
     - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749 - 1832

Keep close to Nature's heart ... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
     - John Muir, 1838 - 1914

Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
     - Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy, 1828 - 1910

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
     - Paulo Freire

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
     - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1917 - 1963

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.
     - Whoopi Goldberg

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