A Quote by Josh Billings

As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.

Josh Billings

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Josh Billings
American - Comedian
April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885

The horseman serves the horse, The neat-herd serves the neat, The merchant serves the purse, The eater serves his meat; 'Tis the day of the chattel, Web to weave, and corn to grind, Things are in the saddle, And ride mankind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets messy when I'm in the flow. So many houses are so neat.

Alexandra Stoddard

I want players to look neat and responsible. Maybe it's old school, but it's kind of neat when people are always clean.

Joe Girardi

If Dracula can’t see his reflection, how come his parting’s always neat?

Karl Pilkington

It's a really neat and special coincidence, but it's nothing but a coincidence. This wasn't set up to give Matt that honor. It's just the way it worked out. It's a neat extra.

Tony La Russa

Dirt makes a man look masculine. Let your hair blow in the wind, and all that. It's OK. All you have to do is look neat when you have to look neat.

Hedy Lamarr

Hello, Minister!" bellowed Percy, sending a neat jinx straight at Thicknesse, who dropped his wand and clawed at the front of his robes, apparently in awful discomfort. "Did I mention I'm resigning?

J. K. Rowling

Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.

Jerome Lejeune

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

Rony Abovitz

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

C. S. Forester

Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.

Karl Marx

I avoid the carwash when I think it might rain anytime in the near future, which means I drive around the majority of the time in a pollen and bird poop covered car. This presents a stand off between Neat Freakshow and Practical Pennypincher, and Neat Freak usually triumphs. And then it rains.

Kristin Armstrong

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals.

Lewis Terman

That admiration of the 'neat but not gaudy,' which is commonly reported to have influenced the devil when he painted his tail pea green.

John Ruskin

I'm a very neat person.

Dick Van Dyke

What was interesting to me was how they actually went to 9/11 and they chose that as part of his back story that we can unravel because it's something that people have shied away from for very obvious reasons. The opportunity to deal with some of that aftermath and the sensitivity, we can use that, and it will be a really neat thing.

Brian Wayne Peterson

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