Gout Quotes - Page 2

• As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Mind, Body, Wealthy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.132

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• Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'.

  Dave Barry

  Fighting, Paris, People

  Dave Barry (1989). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, Ballantine Books

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• Health is certainly more valuable than money; because it is by health that money is procured; but thousands and millions are of small avail to alleviate the protracted tortures of the gout, to repair the broken organs of sense, or resuscitate the powers of digestion. Poverty is, indeed, an evil from which we naturally fly, but let us not run from one enemy to another, nor take shelter in the arms of sickness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Running, Health, Broken

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.270

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• "The caddie will only drink the more if overpaid," you say. Indeed! and to what good purpose do you apply the money you grudge to the poor? Is there something nobler in your gout and dyspepsia than in my caddie's red nose?

  Charles Walter Simpson

  Golf, Caddies, Purpose

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• This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Clothes, Long

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “The Prime Minister: Trollope's Works”, p.89, 谷月社

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• How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Christian, Sea, Sorrow

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1956). “Collected Letters: 1820-1825”

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• It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Psychological

  Charles Dickens (1873). “Tale of Two Cities”, p.449

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• How long must the church live before it will learn that strength is won by action, and success by work, and that all this immeasurable feeding without action and work is a positive damage to it--that it is the procurer of spiritual obesity, gout, and debility.

  J. G. Holland

  Spiritual, Long, Church

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 147, 1895.

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• At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.

  Edmund Wilson

  Elderly, Sometimes, Preoccupation

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• 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.

  Lewis Carroll

  Hate, Sea, Income

  Lewis Carroll (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)”, p.857, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Lord Byron

  Sunset, Clouds, Space

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• I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others.

  Thomas Browne

  Pride, Divinity, Stones

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.141

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• The simplest way to look at all these associations, between obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cancer, and Alzheimer's (not to mention the other the conditions that also associate with obesity and diabetes, such as gout, asthma, and fatty liver disease), is that what makes us fat - the quality and quantity of carbohydrates we consume - also makes us sick.

  Gary Taubes

  Cancer, Heart, Alzheimer's

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