quotations about baths & bathing
I remember the ceiling over every bathtub I've stretched out in. I remember the texture of the ceilings and the cracks and the colors and the damp spots and the light fixtures. I remember the tubs, too: the antique griffin-legged tubs, and the modern coffin-shaped tubs, and the fancy pink marble tubs overlooking indoor lily ponds, and I remember the shapes and sizes of the water taps and the different sorts of soap holders.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Bell Jar
I'm gonna be the one
That comes home after work
And fix your bath water
I'm gonna be the kinda guy
That'll never do you wrong
GUY
"Spend the Night"
Let's take a love bath baby
Put some water in the tub and do the body rub
SMOKEY ROBINSON
"Love Bath"
I test my bath before I sit,
And I'm always moved to wonderment
That what chills the finger not a bit
Is so frigid upon the fundament.
OGDEN NASH
Samson Agonistes
There is no problem on earth that can't be ameliorated by a hot bath and a cup of tea.
JASPER FFORDE
Shades of Grey
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: "I'll go take a hot bath."
SYLVIA PLATH
The Bell Jar
The bath is one of the places I prefer, certainly not a place I leave readily, a place where one can close the door and remove oneself, put oneself in parentheses, as it were, from the rest of humanity. It is a place for reading and thinking, where one's mind wanders easily, where time seems temporarily suspended.
SHEILA KOHLER
The Perfect Place
In taking a bath one is admitting he is dirty.
AFRICAN PROVERB
They who bathe in May will soon be laid in clay;
They who bathe in June will sing a merry tune;
They who bathe in July will dance like a fly.
WILLIAM HONE
Table-Book
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
Inside Mr. Enderby
I love the magic of a hot bath, how time pauses and every grievance melts away.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Smile Anyway
They always gives me bath salts ... and bath soap and bubble bath and herbal bath lumps and tons of bath stuff and I can't think why, 'cos it's not as if I hardly ever has a bath. You'd think they'd take the hint, wouldn't you?
TERRY PRATCHETT
Hogfather
He thought he'd linger just a bit longer, let the bath take total hold, ease and alleviate, before he put on clothes and entered the complex boxes where people do their living. Nothing fits the body so well as water.
DON DELILLO
Underworld
Anyone who thinks heaven is not hot water behind a locked door has forgotten what it means to live.
LUCY FRANK
Two Girls Staring at the Ceiling
Taking delight in our own everyday consciousness, in our simple realization that we are indeed experiencing a moment of joy or a hot bath, is one of the principal pleasures of human existence.
ALWYN SCOTT
Stairway to the Mind
I can tell you kids grew up with a silver spoon in your mouth. When I was your age, we took a bath once a week on Saturday night, and all of us used the same bath water.
K. MARTIN BECKNER
Chips of Red Paint
Throw the baby out with the bathwater.
THOMAS MURNER
Appeal to Fools
I believe it is customary to get get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards; personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted--my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than it did ... so I bask first, wash second and then read as long as the hot water holds out. The last stage of a bath, when the water is cooling and there is nothing to look forward to, can be pretty disillusioning.
DODIE SMITH
I Capture the Castle
A seething bath, which yet men prove
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure ...
And healthful remedy for men diseased.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Sonnets
I fly to the hot baths, there you din my ears;
I seek the cold bath, there I cannot swim for your noise.
MARTIAL
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