Bath twice a day to be really clean, once a day to be passably clean, once a week to avoid being a public menace.

-Wilson
  Inside Mr Enderby, pt.2, ch.1.

MissTwye was soaping her breasts in the bath When she heard behind her a meaning laugh And to her amazement she discovered A wicked man in the bathroom cupboard.

-Ewart, Gavin Buchanan
  'Miss Twye'.

All my house, But now, steamed like a bath with her thick breath. A lawyer could not have been heard; nor scarce Another woman, such a hail of words She has let fall.

-Jonson, Ben
  Of Lady Politic Would-be. Volpone, act 3, sc.5.

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.

-Nash, (Frederic) Ogden
  Good Intentions,'Samson  Agonistes'.

Tching prayed on the mountain and wroteon his bath tub. Day by day make it new cut underbrush, pile the logs keep it growing.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
MAKE IT NEW 1954  The Cantos, no.53.

Praise the sports of the land And water, each oneö The bath by the beach, or the yacht on the seaö But of all the sweet pleasures Known under the sun; A good game of Croquet's the sweetest to me.

-Reid,Thomas Mayne
  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

And the rose like a nymph to the bath addressed, Which unveiled the depth of her glowing breast, Till, fold after fold, to the fainting air The soul of her beautyand love lay bare.

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
  'The Sensitive Plant', pt.1, l.29^32.

How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.

-Updike,John Hoyer
  Self-Consciousness, I.'A Soft Spring Night in Shillington'.