Gout Quotes
26 quotes by 23 authors
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The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.
— Josh Billings
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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
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Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
— Benjamin Franklin
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient
— Ambrose Bierce
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Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout
— Stephan Jenkins
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..the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families...
— George Eliot
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So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.
— Ned Beauman
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I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
— Thomas Browne
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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
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The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a…
— Alexander Smith
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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
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Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
— Plutarch
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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
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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
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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: