Quotes About Elixir

If you should decide during your old age that you would like to live another five hundred years, come here and drink ten pounds of this sap," they told me. "But don't do it now. You're too young to decide to live forever.

Making an elixir out of coffee beans was probably invented in Ethiopia, where the plant is endemic. From there, beans, still in their skins, mixed with animal fat, were traded to Yemen, right across the Red Sea from Ethiopia.

That's just ridiculous," I breathed, awe and lust swirling through me like some heady elixir.

Lind's 1747 experiment looked at scurvy. Twelve sailors who had the illness were divided into six groups. The accommodations and diet of all the sailors were identical, but each received a different remedy: one group received cider; one got seawater; another, "elixir of vitriol"; the fifth group, two oranges and a lemon; and the sixth, a mix of spices with barley water. It was the first documented clinical trial in medical history.

Whatever else it impressed on the culture, Huxley's experience left no doubt in his mind or Osmond's that the 'model psychosis' didn't begin to describe the mind on mescaline. 'It will give that elixir a bad name if it continues to be associated, in the public mind, with schizophrenia symptoms, Huxley wrote to Osmond in 1955. 'People will think they are going mad, when in fact they are beginning, when they take it, to go sane.

I'd finally given her what she wanted, the elixir of eternal youth, effected by the removal of her internal fire (the catalyst of change) through the agency of death.

In your love I dive to find the nectar of life.

El agua es el elixir de la vida. Nunca me canso de beberla.

Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too!

Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.

Poison or elixir, narcotic or aphrodisiac, whatever it was, this flower, relic of a day in the life of an accidental writer, an inadvertent counterfeiter leaving his traces in code, the birds were coming to try it, performing a dance for no one and flying up toward the moon.

Faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought!

For gold in phisik is a cordial,Therefore he lovede gold in special.

Goodwill to others ... helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes your blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life.

Drinking the mystery punch that will always get her

faith is the "eternal elixir" which gives life, power, and action to the impulse of thought! The

I prefer to African wines, to opium, to burgundy, The elixir of your mouth where love parades itself; When my desires leave in caravan for you, Your eyes are the reservoir where my cares drink. — Charles Baudelaire, from "Sed Non Satiata," Fleurs du mal / Flowers of Evil . Translated by Geoffrey Wagner. (David R. Godine; First edition, second printing edition October 1, 1985) Originally published 1857.

Doar moartea consoleaz? ?i-ndeamn? a tr?i;e idealul vie?ii ?i e n?dejdea toat?,e elixirul care ne-anim? ?i ne-mbat? ?i care d? puterea s? mai tr?im o zi.

The uncle ignored Gracie's father. 'In any event,' he went on, 'when brewers combine hops with yeast and grain and water, and allow the mixture to ferment -- to rot -- it magically produces an elixir so gassy with blue-collar cheer, so regal with glints of gold, so titillating with potential mischief, so triumphantly refreshing, that it seizes the soul and thrusts it toward that ethereal plateau where, to paraphrase Baudelaire, all human whimsies float and merge.

England, with its upsetting history of colonialism. It never did seem quite right to Norris, the British being so utterly British no matter where they were. One ought to adapt, he believes. One ought to accommodate. Change, after all, is the great elixir of life.

He was also perpetually developing configurations of straight lines that deceive the viewer in their apparent readability as plastic forms, with walls and openings, only to become something entirely different as we look at them. Physical impossibility in the guise of the plausible was his elixir.

My number one elixir for anxiety? Comfort food.

Love that sets forth the soul like springtime and ripens it like summer. Love as rarely exists in reality, as if a master alchemist has taken it and distilled out all the impurities, every petty disenchantment, every unworthy thought, into a perfect elixir, sweet and deep and all-consuming.

Elixirs should be kept in clocks. Made of bergamot and fumes, this one spreads furtively across the dawn