The French courage proceeds from vanity the German from phlegm the Turkish from fanaticism opium the Spanish from pride the English from coolness the Dutch from obstinacy the Russian from insensibility but the Italian from anger.
Quotes about phlegm (4 Quotes)
And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways', Yossarian continued 'There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of Creation What in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatalogical mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements Why in the world did He ever create pain.
'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.
But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.