Tonic Quotes

74 Tonic quotes by 59 unique authors

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. — William Arthur Ward
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But… — Oliver Sacks
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be… — Henry David Thoreau
Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful… — Roger Caras
The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is… — C.S. Lewis
Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic. — Chuck Palahniuk
Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up. “I thought you must be dead …” he said simply. “So did I for a… — Douglas Adams
There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple… — William George Jordan
I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward… — Diane Ackerman
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but… — Kathleen Norris
When I arrived in Beirut from Europe, I felt the oppressive, damp heat, saw the unkempt palm trees and smelt the Arabic coffee, the fruit… — Robert Fisk
If I am against the condition of the world it is not because I am a moralist, it is because I want to laugh more.… — Henry Miller
Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it. — Patrick Rothfuss
Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer. — Walter Scott
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving. — B. C. Forbes
I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on… — Burning Spear
In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple… — Ernie Pyle
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. — Roy Blount, Jr.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. — Orison Swett Marden
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of… — Henry Miller
That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part… — Studs Terkel
Two-gun game, all-black Ferrari. His and her Armani, put it in a tonic. — 2 Chainz

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