quotes about Baths
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When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.
-- Aki KaurismakiSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?
-- Al Capone -
We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day. I don't care if it's a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath - whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
-- Al Pacino -
The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times. A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
-- Al Pacino -
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BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.
-- Anthony Burgess -
A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
-- Augustine Birrell -
There is nothing a pig loves more than a good bath, with a loofah and plenty of soap flakes ... There is something delightfully lovable about a really clean pig, in clean yellow straw.
-- Barbara Woodhouse -
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They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
-- Billy SundaySource : Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”
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This is a natural evolution, building a complete bath ensemble program and the Joseph Abboud bath brand within the Creative Bath family of licensed programs.
-- Bob Weiss -
A-well-a, splish, splash, I forgot about the bath, I went and put my dancing shoes on.
-- Bobby Darin -
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I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.
-- Charlton Heston -
And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.
-- Chris LeDoux -
A bath and a tenderloin steak. Those are the high points of a man's life.
-- Curt Siodmak -
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People were so cheap there... they ate beans to save on bubble bath.
-- Daniel Wallace -
It's hard to love a place that's outlawed smoking but finds it perfectly acceptable to serve raw fish in a bath of chocolate.
-- David Sedaris -
Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.
-- Delmore SchwartzSource : Delmore Schwartz (1950). “Vaudeville for a princess, and other poems”
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His letter was like the shock produced by a cold bath.
-- Duff Green -
Kewell should have been yanked off the pitch at half time and put in a hot bath, a boiling hot bath.
-- Eamon -
I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.
-- Edward Weston -
I'm really old-fashioned. An Epsom salt bath, that's genuinely better than any massage.
-- Emilia Clarke -
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Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.
-- Evan Esar -
Freedom is like taking a bath: You got to keep doing it every day.
-- Florynce Kennedy -
To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.
-- George MacDonald -
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
-- Henrik IbsenSource : Henrik Ibsen (1964). “Letters and speeches”
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The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.
-- Hippocrates -
Lord Bath used to say of women, who are apt to say that they will follow their own judgment, that they could not follow a worse guide.
-- Horace Walpole -
Sleep is no longer a healing bath, a recuperation of vital forces, but an oblivion, a nightly brush with annihilation.
-- J. M. Coetzee -
I invented that little rhyme about 'One Ring to rule them all', I remember, in the bath one day.
-- J. R. R. Tolkien -
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Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.
-- Jim Davis -
You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have nothing else
-- Joe AbercrombieSource : Joe Abercrombie (2009). “The Blade Itself: The First Law: Book One”, p.71, Hachette UK
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Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
-- John Vianney -
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Do you clean yourself before you take a bath?
-- Joseph Prince -
You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny.
-- Kate Moss -
You took a bath without me?" I smiled to myself at the accusation in his voice.
-- Katie MacAlister -
I say 'Mom, how come you don't change into an evening gown for dinner?' She says 'I do, it's called a bath robe. [...]
-- Lauren Child -
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Now aren't you glad I made you take a bath?" Bill asked. "One less bottle of eau de reekette punching holes in l'ozone.
-- Lauren Kate -
A good bathe when you really need it can get you over almost anything.
-- Lindsey DavisSource : Lindsey Davis (2007). “Shadows in Bronze: A Marcus Didius Falco Mystery”, p.122, Macmillan
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Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?
-- Marcus Aurelius -
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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
-- Mark Twain -
Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.
-- Minnie Pearl -
I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
-- Oliver ReedSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Shunning the upstart shower, / The cold and cursory scrub, / I celebrate the power / That lies within the Tub.
-- Phyllis McGinley -
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It never fails - you get in the bath and there's a rub at the lamp
-- Robin Williams -
The water bath has a platform which the rats learn to find because they don't like to get wet. Then you remove the platform. But you don't tell the rats.
-- Susumu Tonegawa -
So I rang up my local swimming baths. I said 'Is that the local swimming baths?' He said 'It depends where you're calling from.'
-- Tim Vine -
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Eureka is Greek for ‘this bath is too hot’.
-- Tom Baker -
I have a bath. It just relaxes me. Sitting there for a bit and just breathe and go ‘ffffuuuhhh….’, you know.
-- Tom Meighan -
My principal failing as a writer is the lack of spontaneity; the nuisance of parallel thoughts, second thoughts, third thoughts; inability to express myself properly in any language unless I compose every damned sentence in my bath, in my mind, at my desk.
-- Vladimir Nabokov -
Repeat: Sharing the kids bathroom while my master bath gets renovated is family bonding. So fun.
-- Jillian Barberie -
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I love standing under a steaming shower when I'm tired in the morning. I don't really get a chance for baths.
-- Suzanne Shaw -
I know Camberwell very well: I used to go to Camberwell New Baths a lot and the cinema, which used to be the Odeon. My old school is around there too, though you've got to understand that I went to a lot of schools.
-- Paul Simonon -
One does not allow the plumbers to decide the temperature, depth and timing of a bath.
-- Jack Gould -