Tonic Quotes

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

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 in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.

I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.