Humors Quotes
24 quotes by 22 authors
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A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Good wine makes good blood, good blood causeth good humors, good humors cause good thoughts, good thoughts bring forth good works, good works carry a…
— James Howell
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Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, tenets with books, and principles with times.
— Alexander Pope
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In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.
— John Milton
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The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is composed of chemicals,…
— Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado
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The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.
— Benjamin Whichcote
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French wines may be said but to pickle meat in the stomach, but this is the wine that digests, and doth not only breed good…
— James Howell
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot…
— Joseph Addison
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In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that…
— H. L. Mencken
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Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford upon Avon in the county of Warwick. His father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore…
— John Aubrey
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...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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Each portion of matter may be conceived of as a garden full of plants, and as a pond full of fishes. But each branch of…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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Lithium tweaks many mood-altering chemicals in the brain, and its effects are complicated. Most interesting, lithium seems to reset the body’s circadian rhythm, its inner…
— Sam Kean
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If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other…
— Benjamin Franklin
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A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the…
— Athenaeus
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Those who see and observe kings, heroes, and statesmen, discover that they have headaches, indigestion, humors and passions, just like other people; every one of…
— Lord Chesterfield
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A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the…
— George Eliot
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There cannot be any great happiness in the married life except each in turn give up his or her own humors and lesser inclinations.
— Samuel Richardson
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Through certain humors or passions, and from temper merely, a man may be completely miserable, let his outward circumstances be ever so fortunate.
— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
Who Wrote These Humors Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 24 Humors Quotes as follows: