Gout Quotes

26 quotes by 23 authors

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. — Josh Billings
Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to… — Mark Twain
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. — Benjamin Franklin
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou… — Seneca the Younger
The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention the… — Gary Taubes
I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the… — Thomas Sydenham
Gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. Great kings, emperors, generals, admirals and philosophers have all… — Thomas Sydenham
When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other… — Joseph Addison
Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient — Ambrose Bierce
Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout — Stephan Jenkins
..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families... — George Eliot
So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene. — Ned Beauman
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. — Thomas Browne
Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His… — James Russell Lowell
The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morningâ€”first fallen flake of the coming snows of ageâ€”is a… — Alexander Smith
Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines… — Dave Barry
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara. — Plutarch
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease.… — Thomas Sydenham
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about.… — Pierre-Jean de Beranger
How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Who Wrote These Gout Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 26 Gout Quotes as follows: