Top 100 Tonic Quotes
#1. Strychnine is a grand tonic, Kemp, to take the flabbiness out of a man.
H.G.Wells
#3. Rum is tonic that clarifies the vision,
and sets things in true perspective.
Brian D'Ambrosio
#4. Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
B.C. Forbes
#5. To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.
Frances Gray Patton
#6. Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller
#7. If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates.
John Burroughs
#8. Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it's the latest scoop. But that's alright girls, you can call it goop.
Elvis Presley
#9. My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
Chiang Kai-shek
#10. The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#11. Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.
Audrey Hepburn
#12. Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin
#13. We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. 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.
Studs Terkel
#15. For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winter's night, there's nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill ... an absolute peach of a bourbon.
Martin Bashir
#16. Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.
Allison Pearson
#17. The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.
Honore De Balzac
#18. The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.
Winston Churchill
#20. Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight
William James
#21. Meditating deeply so that she could really, clearly experience being angry and lonesome and hurt and horror-struck never seemed as good as a strong gin and tonic and another hour of work.
James S.A. Corey
#22. Clean hearts and healthful food, exercise, early sleep and fresh air, wholesome recreation and meditation combined with optimism that comes from fighting for the right and knowing you'll eventually win for keeps - this is the tonic every true Christian patriot needs and deserves.
Ezra Taft Benson
#23. 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.
Grenville Kleiser
#24. I had an Aston Martin phone worth ?15,000 given to me as a present. I dropped it in a gin and tonic about 15 seconds after opening it.
Simon Jordan
#25. She would hear the verbal balancing act: urgency mixed like gin amid the tonic of consideration.
Chris Bohjalian
#26. In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.
Frederick Lenz
#27. Out of 40,000+ herbs used worldwide, perhaps only 50-60 of them are tonic superherbs. These superherbs should be taken for long periods, because, like all tonics, they are more like food and they build health treasures within and nourish our "stress defense shield."
David Wolfe
#28. With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
Louis Kronenberger
#29. There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden
#30. The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#31. Things must be done, life must go on. Life would go on, even if every breath she took hurt, even if her joints ached when she moved. Sorry and loneliness were an insidious evil, for they lived in the mind. One could not take a tonic and see them dissipate.
Kristen Callihan
#32. Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B.C. Forbes
#33. Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
B.B. King
#34. We need the tonic of wildness ... At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
Henry David Thoreau
#35. And when Prohibition came along, Dr. Sharpe's Shakti Tonic took off like a rocket, mostly due to its hefty eighteen percent alcohol content.
Donald O'Donovan
#36. Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#37. I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, "Life is good!"
Dallas Campbell
#38. I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.
Burning Spear
#39. Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Emile M. Cioran
#40. Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.
Walter Scott
#43. Cancer walked all over my father, in large part because he opened the door, turned on the porch light, and invited it in heartily
You old bastard! Come in and have a vodka tonic!
Dave Eggers
#44. Praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.
Mary Augusta Ward
#45. I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.
Denis Thatcher
#46. You hit me again and I'll - " "What? Bleed more? Thanks, but I only drink gin and tonic. That's one vampire attribute I'm without. No fangs, see?
Jeaniene Frost
#47. A good book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
Roy Blount Jr.
#48. But music is very important. Music is a tonic for the pineal gland. Music isn't Bach or Beethoven; music is the can opener of the soul. It makes you terribly quiet inside, makes you aware that there's a roof to your being.
Henry Miller
#49. There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.
Billy Joel
#50. A bear walks into a bar and says, "Bartender, I'd like a gin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and tonic." And the bartender says, "Sure, but what's with the big pause?
Various
#51. In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.
P. J. O'Rourke
#52. Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.
William Arthur Ward
#53. Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.
Jonah Lehrer
#54. When I think of Canada I think of tonic water.
Dudley Moore
#55. Get drunk by drinking the magical beauty and tranquil tonic of nature; get lost in the wilderness.
Debasish Mridha
#56. Sometimes love was a tonic. Sometimes it was a weapon. And so often it was nearly impossible to tell the difference
Sarah Ockler
#57. In prosperous times I have sometimes felt my fancy and powers of language flag, but adversity is to me at least a tonic and bracer.
Walter Scott
#58. Sometimes, when the world gets too hard to live in, I come here for vodka and tonic.
Haruki Murakami
#59. Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness ...
Henry David Thoreau
#60. Drinks were a lot like books, really: it didn't matter where you were, the contents of a vodka tonic were always more or less the same, and you could count on them to take you away to somewhere better or at least make your present arrangements seem more manageable.
Lev Grossman
#61. Same hour, same set-up: woman plus tortoise, tortoise plus hibiscus, man plus gin and tonic. "To arm myself against the evening."
She had found it perplexing, a man who feared the evening because he feared the night.
Cees Nooteboom
#62. I shall be well enough when I get to Kentucky or Alabama. The tonic I need is the tonic of opposition. That always sets me on my feet.
Dorothea Dix
#63. We need the tonic of wilderness. - Henry David Thoreau
Richard Louv
#64. For some, gin was a vile and degrading venom, but for many others it was a thirst-quencher, a proof of virility, an aphrodisiac, a rite of passage, a tonic, a nourishment, a pacifier for children, a fount of confidence and inspiration for the preacher or the soapbox ranter.
Richard Barnett
#65. Insecurity is a toxin and confidence is a tonic, so make the choice not to dwell on the worst possible case.
Emily Yoffe
#66. I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and come back in time for a large gin and tonic.
J.G. Ballard
#67. The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.
Geoffrey Brooke
#68. Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job.
Ray Bradbury
#69. In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.
Jean-Philippe Rameau
#70. ...For having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul.
Erica Eisdorfer
#71. Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.
Patrick Rothfuss
#74. There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans ... and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
Henry Ward Beecher
#75. Jacob orders a Campari and tonic, and I order tea, as planned.
Paulo Coelho
#76. A gin and tonic under its tiny canopy of lime, I said, elevates character and makes for enlightened conversation
Michael Chabon
#77. Over-familiar, the music has become a kind of audio-Valium, background music rather than something I listen to actively and attentively. A gin and tonic after a long day. A shame, I think, because while each note remains the same, I used to hear them differently. It used to sound better.
David Nicholls
#78. Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.
P. J. O'Rourke
#79. But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.
Elizabeth Lesser
#80. Those words, though heaven only knew how often she had heard them, still gave her her thrill. They braced her like a tonic. Life acquired significance. She was about to step from the world of make-believe into the world of reality.
W. Somerset Maugham
#81. So, what would you like to drink?"
"Aside from you?"
I laughed anxiously. "You can't drink me."
He leaned forward, his eyes running up and down my body, causing my skin to heat. "Yes, I believe I can. And I believe I will. But for now, I'll just have a Bombay and tonic.
Karina Halle
#83. Travel is like a tonic to me. It's more than just getting away from the studio for a brief rest. I need it to recharge my batteries.
Norman Rockwell
#85. Was to filter hair tonic through bread and then mix it with grape juice. Like virtually every other drink devised in the Pacific, it was known as Jungle Juice.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#86. It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love - loving ourselves as well as others.
Bernie Siegel
#87. 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.
Colette
#89. War has dug itself into economic systems, where it offers a livelihood to millions ... It has lodged in our souls as a kind of religion, a quick tonic for political malaise and a bracing antidote to the moral torpor of consumerist, market-driven cultures.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#90. Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.
Stephen Fry
#91. There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.
Michael R. Burch
#92. The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place.
Dan John
#93. Natural Blood Tonic and Blood Purifier 1. Prepare 1 cup of pineapple juice. 2. Add 1 mashed banana to juice. 3. Mix very well and add half cup of honey. 4. Mix thoroughly and administer as a single dose at night before going to bed.
James R. Parker
#94. I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.
Stan Bowles
#95. 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.
Ernie Pyle
#96. Succeeding Dexter's first exhilaration came restlessness and dissatisfaction. The helpless ecstasy of losing himself in her was opiate rather than tonic. It was fortunate for his work during the winter that those moments of ecstasy came infrequently.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#98. Cats are a tonic, they are a laugh, they are a cuddle, they are at least pretty just about all of the time and beautiful some of the time.
Roger A. Caras
#99. Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.
Alec-Tweedie
#100. The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.
June Allyson
