Quotes About Laudanum

#1. Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#2. On some nights I take a little laudanum and a few months ago Mrs Abernetty recommended pillows stuffed with camel hair. She was absolutely right.

Anthony Horowitz

#3. Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

Samuel Garth

#4. Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others.

Arthur Frederick Saunders

#5. Although Carroll is now something of an iconic figure for psychedelic drug users, there is only the tiniest shred of evidence that he ever took laudanum, morphine, cocaine, magic mushrooms or indeed that he sampled any mind-altering drugs at all.

Jenny Woolf

#6. Algebra, like laudanum, deadens pain, Fritz wrote.

Penelope Fitzgerald

#7. Illegal drugs are better for you than the legal stuff. How many artists have created while drunk, high on laudanum, opium, chloral, or amphetamines? What have antidepressants ever done for culture?

Hanif Kureishi

#8. It wasn't my doing. It is the drink and the laudanum and the opium and that bloody refusal to live. That selfish grief. I thought I could change it with magic, but I can't. People will be who they are, and there is not enough magic in any world to change that.

Libba Bray

#9. You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

Christopher Pike

#10. Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

Julia McNair Wright

#11. I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.

Henry Rollins

#12. Covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned

Anonymous

#13. Tempting is not forcing.

Peter Kreeft

#14. We must focus on people as people, regardless of race, creed, color or gender.

Judge Mills Lane

#15. Men think we can't do two things at once. They can't, but we can. Women are more resilient.

Dina Merrill

#16. The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up close, pointed a finger, gave it a nickname, and masked their terror with roaring laughter.

Carsten Jensen

#18. We shall not become like Christ until we give Him more time.

Frank Laubach

#19. The house is always full, and we're always cooking - outside, inside, for six, eight, a dozen, 20 people.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

#20. E-mail creates the illusion that you're writing. You're not.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips