Ulcers Quotes

• I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

  Ed Koch

  Giving, Type, Explanation

  Ed Koch (2011). “The Little Red Book of New York Wisdom”, p.95, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Envy is the ulcer of the soul.

  Socrates

  Envy, Soul, Envious

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• I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

  Charles Kuralt

  Pressure, I've Learned, Stomach

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• Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache, peptic ulcers, heart attacks, hypertension, mental disease, suicide, or just hopeless unhappiness.

  Hans Selye

  Suicide, Stress, Heart

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• The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.

  Anthony de Mello

  Thinking, Rich, Poor

  Anthony De Mello (2012). “Heart of the Enlightened: A Book of Story Meditations”, p.33, Image

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• I have an ulcer. It has an IQ of 185.

  Paul Lynde

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• My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Heart, Erratic, Useless

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• The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Climbing, Mountain, Causes

  Maxwell Maltz (1989). “Psycho-Cybernetics”, p.221, Simon and Schuster

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• Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

  Austin O'Malley

  Inspirational, Views, Wonderful

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• I had to learn to forgive. I couldn't sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn't want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

  Rodney King

  Letting Go, Mean, Sleep

  "Rodney King: 'I had to learn to forgive'" by Rory Carroll, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2012.

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• Cows given genetically modified growth hormones make more milk, but have painful swollen udders, have ulcers, joint pain, miscarriages, deformed calves, infertility, and much shorter life spans. Their milk contains blood, pus, tranquilizers, antibiotics, and an insulin growth factor that can cause a fourfold increase in prostate cancer and sevenfold rise in breast cancer. This is the milk used in our school lunch programs and served to our children. This is the milk that you buy every day. This is the milk used in all cheeses, yogurts, butter, and cream.

  Kevin Trudeau

  Children, Pain, Cancer

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• R is a velocity of measure, defined as a reasonable speed of travel that is consistent with health, mental well-being, and not being more than, say, five minutes late. It is therefore clearly as almost infinite variable figure according to circumstances, since the first two factors vary not only with speed as an absolute, but also with awareness of the third factor. Unless handled with tranquility, this equation can result in considerable stress, ulcers, and even death.

  Douglas Adams

  Stress, Two, Variables

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts Volume 2: The Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential Phases”, p.111, Pan Macmillan

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• I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four ulcer job ... I have never met you but if I do, you'll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and a supporter below.

  Harry S. Truman

  Jobs, Eye, Men

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• What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world - temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.

  John Steinbeck

  Song, Men, Keys

  "The Log from the Sea of Cortez". Book by John Steinbeck. Chapter 4, 1951.

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• Typically, defenders of experiments on animals do not deny that animals suffer. They cannot deny the animals' suffering, because they need to stress the similarities between humans and other animals in order to claim that their experiments may have some relevance for human purposes. The experimenter who forces rats to choose between starvation and electric shock to see if they develop ulcers (which they do) does so because the rat has a nervous system very similar to a human being's, and presumably feels an electric shock in a similar way.

  Peter Singer

  Stress, Animal, Order

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• Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

  Mark Vonnegut

  Cancer, Flu, Mental Illness

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• You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.

  Rumi

  Old Buildings, Sensual, Tears

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• My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.

  Desi Arnaz

  Latin, Blow, America

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• Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Grief, Soul, Sorrow

  Michel de Montaigne (1860). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy”, p.398

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• I hate putting negative energy out into the world. But it's either inside or out. I mean, it's either get an ulcer or have a fight.

  Sharon Van Etten

  Hate, Mean, Fighting

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• I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Men, Emotional

  Tangent Interview, www.tangentonline.com. June 9, 2012.

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• Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.

  Alexis Carrel

  Cancer, Healing, Dark

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• I get very tense working, so I often have to get up and wander around the house. It is very bad on my stomach. I have to be mad to be working well anyway, and then I am mad about the way things are going on the page in addition. My ulcer flourishes and I have to chew lots of pills. When my work is going well, I am usually sort of sick.

  William H. Gass

  Mad, Sick, House

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.34, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• He doesn't get ulcers - he gives them.

  Henny Youngman

  Giving, Insult

  Henny Youngman (1994). “Henny Youngman's Bar Jokes, Bar Bets and Bar Tricks”, Outlet

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• If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

  Marilyn Monroe

  Men, Bank Accounts, Competing

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