Phosphorus Quotes

• Ohne Phosphor, Kein Gedanke. Without phosphorus there would be no thoughts.

  Ludwig Buchner

  Science, Thinking, Would Be

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• Who knows whether it is not true that phosphorus and mind are not the same thing?

  Stendhal

  Mind, Knows

  "Histoire de la Peinture en Italie", Chapter XCI, p. 209 (Ed. 1854), as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 787-90, 1922.

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• And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Light, Dragons, Mind

  H. P. Blavatsky (2011). “The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy”, p.513, Cambridge University Press

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• The treatment of the Germans by the Allies was at least as bad as the shooting of those Jews. The bombing of cities with men, women, and children burning with phosphorus - these things were all done by the Allies.

  Otto Ohlendorf

  Children, Men, Cities

  Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately, 2004, March 1, 1946.

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• The light of friendship is like light of phosphorus, seen plainest when all around is dark.

  Isaiah Crowell

  Friendship, Dark, Light

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• Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die.

  Roland Barthes

  Shining, Literature, Moments

  Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag (1983). “Barthes: Selected Writings”

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• Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.

  Andre Gide

  Flames, Deeds, Action

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• Agassiz does recommend authors to eat fish, because the phosphorus in it makes brains. But I cannot help you to a decision about the amount you need to eat. Perhaps a couple of whales would be enough.

  Mark Twain

  Couple, Whales, Decision

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• Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate because it has some similar nutrients (calcium, phosphorus), and because it can. when combined with vegetable fat and sugar, be made to approximate the colour and consistency of chocolate. Of course, the same arguments can as persuasively be made in favour of dirt.

  Sandra Boynton

  Food, Color, Vegetables

  "Chocolate: The Consuming Passion". Book by Sandra Boynton, 1982.

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• [Barack] Obama can draw lines for himself and his country, not for other countries. We have our red lines, like our sovereignty, our independence, while if you want to talk about world red lines, the United States used depleted uranium in Iraq, Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza, and nobody said anything. What about the red lines ? We don't see red lines. It's political red lines.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Country, Israel, Iraq

  Source: legrandsoir.info

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• Water: 35 Liters. Carbon: 20 Kg. Ammonia: 4 Liters. Lime: 1.5 Kg. Phosphorus: 800 g. Salt: 250 g. Saltpeter: 100g. Sulfur: 80g. Fluorine: 7.5 g. Iron: 5 g. Silicon: 3 g. And 15 other elements in small quantities. That's the total chemical makeup of the average adult body. For that matter, the elements found in a human being is all junk that you can buy in any market with a child's allowance. Humans are pretty cheaply made.

  Hiromu Arakawa

  Children, Makeup, Average

  "Fullmetal Alchemist". Manga by Hiromu Arakawa, 2001 - 2010.

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• Chocolate is an extraordinary source of key stress-fighting minerals including: magnesium, iron, chromium, vanadium, copper, zinc, manganese, and phosphorus. These minerals favorably influence a woman's hormone system, which explains why chocolate has always been considered important for a woman's monthly cycle.

  David Wolfe

  Stress, Fighting, Iron

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• The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition claims that a moderate beer drinker - whatever that means - swallows 11 percent of his dietary protein needs, 12 percent of the carbohydrates, 9 percent of essential phosphorus, 7 percent of his riboflavin, and 5 percent of niacin. Should he go on to immoderate beer drinking, he becomes a walking vitamin pill.

  Barbara Holland

  Drinking, Mean, Beer

  Barbara Holland (2007). “The Joy of Drinking”, Bloomsbury USA

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• In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Men, Museums, Water

  Letter, May 17, 1867.

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