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«At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.»
«The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; For Nature, that to them gave gout, To us gave only gout»
Author: Thomas Erskine | About: Nature | Keywords: gout, the French
«People wish their enemies dead, but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu | Keywords: gout
«Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, and sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both»
«GOUT, n. A physician's name for the rheumatism of a rich patient.»
«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.»
«. . . the rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families . . .»
«The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.»
Author: Josh Billings (Humorist) | About: Medicine | Keywords: gout, rheumatism
«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!»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: dainties, dyspeptic, endured, gout, wretch, yonder