Gout Quotes
Gout Quote of the day
The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.
People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
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 disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.
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 died of gout.
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout.
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 church, it gives me dysentery.
I had an attack of the gout two days before pulling out, and I went limping off to the war instead of coming limping back from it.
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.
Just as old age is creeping on space, And clouds come o'er the sunset of our day, They kindly leave us, though not quite alone, But in good company--the gout or stone.
So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.
There are certain things--as, a spider, a ghost, The income-tax, gout, an umbrella for three-- That I hate, but the thing that I hate the most Is a thing they call the Sea.
I'll admit it I'm on acid: uric acid! It makes my gout hurt like hell, but the foods I eat are so damn well
The glutton usually realizes that gout is ever ready to pounce, and that alcohol is bad for him. But possible disaster weighs light in the scale against certain pleasure.
