Alterius Quotes

#1. Man is a deeply illogical being, and must be ruled illogically. Whatever that frigid prig Bentham may say, there are innumerable motives that have nothing to do with utility.

Patrick O'Brian

#2. Dashi remains unfamiliar to most French and American cooks, who tend to reach for a bouillon cube to do many of the same things. But dashi is worth preparing and using the way the Japanese do: for poaching fish, as a soup base, and in simmered dishes.

Nobu Matsuhisa

#3. Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.

Laozi

#4. Alterius non sit qui suus esse potest. (Let no man belong to another that can belong to himself.)

Paracelsus

#5. Several years ago my dear wife went to the hospital. She left a note behind for the children: "Dear children, do not let Daddy touch the microwave" followed by a comma, "or the stove, or the dishwasher, or the dryer." I'm embarrassed to add any more to that list.

Thomas S. Monson

#6. This place is crazy, B. You'll develop testicles just by breathing the air here.

L.J. Shen

#7. I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

Bessie Head

#8. Life has no pleasure higher or nobler than that of friendship.

Samuel Johnson

#9. I don't mind when my horse is left at the post. I don't mind when my horse comes up to me in the stands and asks, "Which way do I go?" But when the horse I bet on is at the $2 window betting on another horse in the same race ...

Henny Youngman

#10. So we children must be thankful to the imperious Dr. Young for making it possible for our parents to meet and our subsequent births.

Katherine Paterson

#11. Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble.
[Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes),
Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]

Ovid