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Your Quotes for 25 January 2006 - Cleanliness

William Colgate was born at Hollingbourn, Kent, England on this day in 1783. In 1804 he came to New York City and apprenticed as a soap boiler, two years later he founded the Colgate Soap Company (now Colgate-Palmolive), which is still going strong after two centuries. Such is the power of Cleanliness, today's theme.

Aristocrats, n. Fellows that wear downy hats and clean shirts - guilty of education and suspected of bank accounts.
     - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1881 - 1906

When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
     - Fran Lebowitz

Anybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.
     - Franklin P. Jones

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
     - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936

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

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.
     - Erma Louise Bombeck, 1927 - 1996

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