Following is our list of the most famous gout quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational gout quotes. Hopefully, these gout quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your gout knowledge!
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout. — Josh Billings
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. — Benjamin Franklin
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. — Thomas Sydenham
The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families. — George Eliot
Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald. — Hippocrates
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. — Hosea Ballou
Root cause of enormous porofilic diseases is poor glycemic control. — Gary Brecka
Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover. — Henri Poincare
Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupus... one of those two doesn't sound right. — Mitch Hedberg
Man who eat many prunes get good run for money. — Confucius
Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe. — Lee Trevino
I'm now convinced that all arthritis, most coronary artery disease, acne, eczema, and the autoimmune diseases are all caused or worsened by lectins. — Steven Gundry
A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose of arsenic is to life. — J. G. Holland
Short Gout Quotes
People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone! — Mary Wortley Montagu
Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient — Ambrose Bierce
Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of gout. — Stephan Jenkins
The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout. — Theophrastus
He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end. — Thomas Adams
Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara. — Plutarch
Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. — Joseph Addison
The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout. — Josh Billings
I can cure the gout or stone in some, sooner than Divinity, Pride, or Avarice in others. — Thomas Browne
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout. — Thomas Sydenham
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. — Thomas Sydenham
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee! — Seneca
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee! — Seneca The Elder
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
Old age doth in sharp pains abound; We are belabored by the gout, Our blindness is a dark profound, Our deafness each one laughs about. Then reason's light with falling ray Doth but a trembling flicker cast. Honor to age, ye children pay! Alas! my fifty years are past! — Pierre-Jean de Beranger
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. — Mark Twain
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. — A. J. Liebling
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout. — Edmund Wilson
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
It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected. — Henry Fielding
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. — Mary Augusta Ward
For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. — Thomas Sydenham
In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Again, now, now, again Plashes the rain in heavy gouts, The crinkled lightning Seems ever brightening... And loud and long Again the thunder shouts His battle-song, - One quivering flash, One wildering crash, Followed by silence dead and dull, As if the cloud, let go, Leapt bodily below To whelm the earth in one mad overthrow, And then a total lull. — James Russell Lowell
So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene. — Ned Beauman
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
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