William Alcott Quotes

Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium.

William Alcott

• Equal
• Property
• Opium
• Narcotics
• Condiments
• Galen

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Feel
  • Difficult
  • Adolescence

• I'm part Cuban, so anything with a good beat like Rumberos de Cuba gets me going.

  

  Oona Chaplin
  • Good
  • Me
  • Cuba

• I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Me
  • Stop
  • Never

• When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Movies
  • First
  • Hollywood

• I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Kids
  • Team
  • Husband

• Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Nothing
  • Succeed
  • Without

• In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • War
  • Army
  • Egypt

• Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • She
  • Nation
  • Agriculture

• There is no difference between fundamental research and applied research. Although this is my view, based on personal taste and the areas I have worked in, it is not necessarily true for others.

  

  Yves Chauvin
  • True
  • Difference
  • Research

• Make no mistake: conversion therapy is not about 'praying away the gay.' It's an emotional torture against our most innocent citizens: our children.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Children
  • Mistake
  • Emotional

• When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Sometimes
  • Try
  • Down

• I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Money
  • More
  • Encouraging

• VIP Rosé you can have a beer Cuz honey when you gettin money you don't have a care

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Money
  • Care
  • Beer

• I've got a grocery bill at the end of every month.Our toothpaste, our orange juice, that all gets paid. But I - it is true that I don't carry my wallet that often.

  

  Barack Obama
  • True
  • Months
  • Juice

• I do not think it is an advantage to build planned packaged houses. If you prefabricate a house completely, it becomes an unnecessary restriction.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • House
  • Advantage
  • Build

• When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Worry
  • Door
  • Enthusiasm

• Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Space
  • Chaos
  • Eternity

• Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Trifles
  • Alas

• Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

  

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
  • Democracy
  • Suffering
  • Needs

• It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.

  

  Michael Gruber
  • Shadow
  • Faces
  • Deals

• Lettuce, greens and celery, though much eaten, are worse than cabbage, being equally indigestible without the addition of condiments. Besides, the lettuce contains narcotic properties. It is said of Galen, that he used to obtain from a head of it, eaten on going to bed, all the good effects of a dose of opium.

  

  William Alcott
  • Equal
  • Property
  • Opium