BATH QUOTES

quotations about baths & bathing

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"


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


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


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


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 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


Let's take a love bath baby
Put some water in the tub and do the body rub

SMOKEY ROBINSON

"Love Bath"


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


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


A seething bath, which yet men prove
Against strange maladies a sovereign cure ...
And healthful remedy for men diseased.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Sonnets


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


In taking a bath one is admitting he is dirty.

AFRICAN PROVERB


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


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


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


I love the magic of a hot bath, how time pauses and every grievance melts away.

RICHELLE E. GOODRICH

Smile Anyway


I fly to the hot baths, there you din my ears;
I seek the cold bath, there I cannot swim for your noise.

MARTIAL

Epigrams


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


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