Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him to a natural and healthy dirtiness again.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.
Whatever is dirty, it is women's job to clean up, or drive some man to clean up, and that goes for everything from cellar to senate.
I can say the willingness to get dirty has always defined us as an nation, and it's a hallmark of hard work and a hallmark of fun, and dirt is not the enemy.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
If God made the body, and the body is dirty, then the fault lies with the manufacturer.
I'm made to ride a bike, not do washing.
Life doesn't use detergent to clean itself.
If someone as blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shirt.