Gout Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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

Eunuchs do not take the gout, nor become bald.

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

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

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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