Tonic Quotes

74 quotes by 61 authors

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. — Charlie Chaplin
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. — Emile M. Cioran
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
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
We need the tonic of wildness and...nature. — Henry David Thoreau
The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic. — Geoffrey Brooke
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
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
My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic. — Chiang Kai-shek
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
I really need a gin and tonic. — Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me — June Allyson
I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic. — Stan Bowles
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
... 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
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
A good book holds you down. Itâ€™s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. — Roy Blount, Jr.
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
In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*. — Jean-Philippe Rameau
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

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