Quotes About Gout

#1. 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

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

Edmund Wilson

#3. 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

#4. Gout, I understand, has reformed a great many rogues.

Loretta Chase

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

Thomas Browne

#6. He rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families ...

George Eliot

#7. 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

#8. He who is proud of his knowledge, has gout in the wrong end.

Thomas Adams

#9. Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

Hippocrates

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. Gout is not relieved by a fine shoe nor a hangnail by a costly ring nor migraine by a tiara.

Plutarch

#13. So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.

Ned Beauman

#14. Give me liberty or give me gout?! Ok, who's been messing with this?

Patrick Henry

#15. The detonation was deafening, the blast a bruised gout of flame that drove back the airborne sand and the wind carrying it, and flung the attackers and their mounts like a god's hand, backward onto the road and off the sides.

Steven Erikson

#16. Gout, a physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient

Ambrose Bierce

#17. People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!

Mary Wortley Montagu

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Le mauvais gout mene au crime.' The

Arthur Conan Doyle

#21. The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

Josh Billings

#22. The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Tart cherries lower the levels of inflammation in the body, which may be particularly useful for those who suffer from gout. They have also been used to improve sleep.

Michael Greger

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. Luxury and Ostentation usually make me feel antsy, like I'm going to get a case of Gout

Stephan Jenkins

#29. By gad, is that you, Ainswood? I haven't seen you in a dog's age. How's the gout? Still troubling you?

Loretta Chase

#30. The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

Theophrastus

#31. Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

Benjamin Franklin

#32. 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

#33. My dear Alicia, of what a mistake were you guilty in marrying a man of his age! Just old enough to be formal, ungovernable, and to have the gout; too old to be agreeable, too young to die.

Jane Austen

#34. Indolent, and he was suffering greatly from gout. He abdicated.

H.G.Wells

#35. 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

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#36. 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 Younger

#37. Only rear echelons with plenty of fat on them can afford such rich diseases, like an epicure with his gout.

Robert Leckie

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

Nathaniel Hawthorne