quotations about baths & bathing
A bath has an uplifting power and ministers to self-respect, and the practice of singing in the tub is a pean of praise to its salutary virtues.
JAMES CHRICHTON-BROWNE
"World Interest in Bathing", Domestic Engineering and the Journal of Mechanical Contracting, September 17, 1921
A cold bath is a strong stimulant to the entire circulatory system, provided one can recuperate with a feeling of warmth immediately thereafter.
BERNARR MACFADDEN
Vitality Supreme
Father says hot water can be as stimulating as an alcoholic drink and though I never come by one ... I can well believe it.
DODIE SMITH
I Capture the Castle
Many recite their writings in the bath. How pleasantly the vaulted space echoes the voice!
HORACE
Satires
People who live in glass houses shouldn't take baths.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
The question is often asked--But which mode of bathing is best? To which we might make two replies, both true, and yet both a little paradoxical. We might say, Every mode is best; and we might also say, Neither is best. Or in other words, All modes are good in their place, but what is best for one, is not always best for another; and no mode is good in all circumstances. Much depends, too, on the object for which we bathe. If our sole object were cleanliness, the warm or rather the tepid bath would, most undoubtedly, be the best. On the contrary, if the invigorating effects of a reaction are the only, or even the main thing aimed at, then the cold shower bath, or a plunge in cold water would be the best for those who were already robust and healthy.
WILLIAM ANDRUS ALCOTT
Thoughts on Bathing
What a pure blessing it was to have a bath in a tub alone in a room where all you had to do was pump the water, not tote buckets. Then all you had to do was pull out the cork, not tote more buckets to the back porch--that kind of thing is easy to take lightly until you don't have it.
NANCY E. TURNER
Sarah's Quilt
I think best in a hot bath, with my head tilted back and my feet up high.
ELIZABETH JANE HOWARD
Mr. Wrong
She felt faintly embarrassed by the sheer profusion of things she had for putting in baths, but she was for some reason incapable of passing any chemist's or herb shop without going in to be seduced by some glass-stoppered bottle of something blue or green or orange or oily that was supposed to restore the natural balance of some vague substance she didn't even know she was supposed to have in her pores.
DOUGLAS ADAMS
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
I meditate in the bath. The water needs to be very hot, so hot you can barely stand putting your foot in it. Then you lower yourself, inch by inch, till the water's up to your neck.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Bell Jar
In France and in America also a gentleman leads a lady into the water as he takes her out to a dance. When both sexes are arrayed in proper costume, a bath is surely as proper as a waltz or a polka. Nor could we ever perceive the necessity for a lady wearing more clothes at a bath than in a ballroom. The "license" of both sexes, properly clad, bathing together, is surely vastly preferable to the prurient curiosity which incites people to line the beach and crowd the bathing stands in the immediate vicinity of the machines on the one hand, and the lawlessness of the untutored, unwashed "rough," which often degenerates into low black-guardism on the other. Let any who doubts the truth of this, try our beach when overrun by a large crowd of excursionists from London, and judge for himself.
EDMUND GOLDSMID
The Bath and the Beach; Or, All about Bathing
Perhaps it may be said that as a general rule, the cold shower bath, if persisted in daily, is as useful as any; for while with the aid of a good deal of friction, it subserves, in no small degree, the purposes of cleanliness, it secures at the same time, in a most eminent degree, all the benefits of a reaction.
WILLIAM ANDRUS ALCOTT
Thoughts on Bathing
Every home, however humble, should have a tub, provided, if necessary, by the state.
JAMES CHRICHTON-BROWNE
"World Interest in Bathing", Domestic Engineering and the Journal of Mechanical Contracting, September 17, 1921
A bath is like having sunshine hit every part of my body at once.
KENT GILGES
A Grace Given
Lying with eyes shut, submerged in a hot bath, is not unlike the feeling of Yin. Night is Yin. Day is Yang. One constantly blends into the other.
BAOLIN WU & JESSICA ECKSTEIN
Lighting the Eye of the Dragon
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
DODIE SMITH
I Capture the Castle
How can I put this mildly... You ain't Tarzan and me ain't Jane so F***ING BATHE. There are those blue moons when I don't like to bathe, but that is few and far between, but I am a girl, I smell good thanks to hormones and men just don't.
CATHERINE ELIZABETH CLAY
Dear Demented Diary
In the height of this bath, where I was more than half stewed in grease, like a Dutch dish.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Oh bubble bubble bath
bubble bubble bath
Oh bubble bubble bath
bubble bubble bath
ORANGE CARAMEL
"Bubble Bath"
Splish, splash, I was takin' a bath
Long about a Saturday night, yeah
A rub dub, just relaxin' in the tub
Thinkin' everythin' was alright
Well, I stepped out the tub
I put my feet on the floor
I wrapped the towel around me and I
Opened the door
And then a-splish, splash
I jumped back in the bath
Well, how was I to know
There was a party goin' on?
There was a-splishin' and a-splashin'
Reelin' with the feelin'
Movin' and a-groovin'
Rockin' and a-rollin', yeah, yeah
BOBBY DARIN & MURRAY KAUFMAN
"Splish Splash"