“If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?”

“A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.”

“There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it.”

“The times in his studio when he washed his hands and they smoked, for his hands were so warm and the water so cold.”

“He was caught up in a lie he half-believed,
Found her hiding high in the family tree.
Washed his hands, and put her 'cross his knee.
She said "daddy, you've been a mother to me."”

“Age was respected among his people, but achievement was revered. As the elders said, if a child washed his hands he could eat with kings.”

“Thus, while the mute creation downward bend
Their sight, and to their earthly mother tend,
Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes
Beholds his own hereditary skies.”
Pronaque quum spectent animalia cetera terram, Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.

“When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.”

“All is in the hands of Man. Therefore you should wash them often.”

“No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky
Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me
With just a pocketful of soap.”