Tonic Quotes

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)
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. View quote
Emil Cioran
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane. View quote
Henry Miller
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. View quote
Roy Blount
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
In f-major, c* [a C major chord] is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f. View quote
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear. View quote
Susie Bright
Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice. View quote
Stephen Fry
Dwelling beside a body of water is tonic for the weary psyche. Sea smells, sea birds, seawrack, sands-alternately cool, warm, moist and dry-a taste of brine and the presence of the rocking, slopping bluegraygreen spit-flecked waters, has the effect of rinsing the emotions, bathing the outlook, bleaching the conscience. View quote
Roger Zelazny
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving. View quote
B. C. Forbes
I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality. (Alban Berg)
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. View quote
Orison Swett Marden
In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailing-boat equipment, the gin and tonic. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic. View quote
Denis Thatcher
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. View quote
Grenville Kleiser
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 winters night, theres nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon. View quote
Martin Bashir
Have not many of us, in the weary way of life, felt, in some hours, how far easier it were to die than to live? The martyr, when faced even by a death of bodily anguish and horror, finds in the very terror of his doom a strong stimulant and tonic. There is a vivid excitement, a thrill and fervor, which may carry through any crisis of suffering that is the birth-hour of eternal glory and rest. But to live, - to wear on, day after day, of mean, bitter, low, harassing servitude, every nerve dampened and depressed, every power of feeling gradually smothered, - this long and wasting heart-martyrdom, this slow, daily bleeding away of the inward life, drop by drop, hour after hour, - this is the true searching test of what there may be in man or woman. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
As to abuse, I thrive on it. Abuse, hearty abuse, is a tonic to all save men of indifferent health. View quote
Norman Douglas
The capture of Simbirsk, my home town, is a wonderful tonic, the best treatment for my wounds. I feel a new lease of life and energy. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
It's nine o' clock on a Saturday Regular crowd shuffles in There's an old man sitting next to me Making love to his tonic and gin. View quote
Billy Joel
Me and my brother used to spend a lot of time at music festivals, running away from skinheads. Then my brother became a skinhead... I used to get excruciatingly, mind-numbingly dull guitar lessons from my father: tonic, subdominant, dominant. Yeah, but how do I play it? Tonic, subdominant, mediant. This is a seventh. Great, how do I play it? (Sienna Guillory)
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. View quote
Ernie Pyle
During one of my annual visits to the great Fred Winter's yard I said to him, 'Good God, Fred, your horses look magnificent. Beautifully fit.' Of course they do, you twit,' he said. 'They don't sit up all night drinking gin and tonic and playing cards. View quote
Jeffrey Bernard
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube. View quote
William Arthur Ward
Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion. View quote
B. C. Forbes