Top 120 Tonic Quotes & Sayings

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.

There's no better tonic for other people's bad ideas, than to think for oneself.

In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.

Advertising is prima facie evidence that the man who pays believes that advertising is good. It has brought great results to others, it must be good for him. So he takes it like some secret tonic which others have endorsed. If the business thrives, the tonic gets the credit. Otherwise, the failure is due to fate.

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.

Heaven sends us misfortunes as a moral tonic.

Sex without smiling is as sickly and as base as vodka and tonic without ice.

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.

Personally, I believe a rocking hammock, a good cigar, and a tall gin-and-tonic is the way to save the planet.

I grew up with my mother as a Tonic Shaman.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

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.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

The work of anti-racism can only take place inside each individual soul, where we all try to grow into better people. There is no national tonic or instant cure.

Granted, patriotism is not a tonic that can be forced down people's throats.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

Adversity is, to me at least, a tonic and a bracer.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.

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.

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

But grief is also a tonic. It is a healing elixir, made of tears that lubricate the heart.

A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.

Blacko-oxy-tonic phosphate, it's the latest scoop. But that's alright girls, you can call it goop.

Anyone suffering Downton Abbey withdrawal symptoms will find an instant tonic.

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.

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

In Western Australia they don't even know how to make that vital piece of sailboating equipment, the gin and tonic.

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.

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.

It is a rare and valuable tonic to share insights, dreams and concerns with people whom you have never met. The sole purpose for such exchanges is simply to give light to one another.

We need the tonic of wildness.

I really need a gin and tonic.

Money is a better tonic than Geritol.

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

Trump brings power to those who hate their lack of it, and his message is tonic to communities that have felt nothing but decline for decades.

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!"

praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

Having whipped single women into high marital panic-or "nuptialitis," as one columnist called it- the press hastened to soothe fretted brows with conjugal tonic.

In the Orient we have known for thousands of years that the most powerful tonic for ill health is a happy and clear mind.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

Insecurity is a toxin and confidence is a tonic, so make the choice not to dwell on the worst possible case.

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.

I blew the lot on vodka and tonic, gambling and fags. Looking back, I think I overdid it on the tonic.

The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.

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.

The best tonic for soreness is to do the movement that got you sore in the first place.

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.