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Neatness Quotes

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“Neatness, madam, has nothing to do with the truth. The truth is quite messy, like a wind blown room.”
William J. Harris

“Neatness and cleanliness is not a function of how rich or poor you are but that of mentality and principle.”
Ikechukwu Izuakor, Great Reflections on Success

Gabriel García Márquez
“I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well deserved reward of an ordered mind but just the opposite: a complete system of pretence invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.”
Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Scully liked neatness and order. This office was her notion of a nightmare. She had no idea how Mulder ever found anything he wanted. But he always seemed to.”
Les Martin, Darkness Falls

Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The solution of logical problems must be neat for they set the standard of neatness.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Alexander McCall Smith
“I'd like to be tidy, said Hen, I try, but I guess you can't be what you aren't.”
Alexander McCall Smith, The Sunday Philosophy Club

Anne Tyler
“Some kids are raised in a mess," Ada said, "and they say, 'When I'm on my own, I'll be neater than God.' Others are raised in a mess and they say, 'Life is a mess, looks like, and that's just the way it is.' It's got nothing to do with their upbringing.”
Anne Tyler, Redhead by the Side of the Road

“There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.”
Don Herold

Stella Gibbons
“Unless everything is tidy and pleasant and comfortable all about one, people cannot even begin to enjoy life. I cannot endure messes.”
Stella Gibbons

Utibe Samuel Mbom
“Wear a clean uniform, and a clean character.”
Utibe Samuel Mbom, The Event Usher’s Handbook