People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone! — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and… — Thomas Sydenham Copy Share Image
It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
"The caddie will only drink the more if overpaid," you say. Indeed! and to what good purpose do you apply the money… — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of… — A. J. Liebling Copy Share Image
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the thing that… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene. — Ned Beauman Copy Share Image
..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families... — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
