Tonic Quotes
74 quotes by 61 authors
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
— Emile M. Cioran
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it…
— Honore de Balzac
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We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.
— Geoffrey Brooke
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.
— Oliver Sacks
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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic…
— Billy Joel
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My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing…
— William James
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I really need a gin and tonic.
— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
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The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me
— June Allyson
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I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.
— Stan Bowles
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Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space…
— Graham Swift
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... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what…
— Phil Lesh
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All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic love, strobe light love, lost…
— Lorrie Moore
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A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
— Roy Blount, Jr.
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Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear
— Susie Bright
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In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge…
— Norman Rockwell
Who Wrote These Tonic Quotes
61 authors contributed a total of 74 Tonic Quotes, led by these top contributors: