Gout – Quotes

At 60 the sexual

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

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

The caddie will only

The caddie will only drink the more if overpaid, you say. Indeed! and to what good purpose do you apply the money you grudge to the poor? Is there something nobler in your gout and dyspepsia than in my caddie’s red nose? Charles Walter Simpson

It was understood that

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

As the gout seems

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

Be temperate in wine,

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

This was Barrington Erle,

This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house … Read more

Gout, a physician’s name

Gout, a physician’s name for the rheumatism of a rich patient Ambrose Bierce

The discovery of a

The discovery of a grey hair when you are brushing out your whiskers of a morning—first fallen flake of the coming snows of age—is a disagreeable thing…. So are flying twinges of gout, shortness of breath on the hill-side, the fact that even the moderate use of your friend’s wines at dinner upsets you. These … Read more

In youth, we clothe

In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice. Ralph Waldo Emerson