Quotes of Tonic - somelinesforyou

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

- Sir Walter Scott

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

- William A. Ward

“ 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. ”

- Norman Rockwell

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

- Chiang Kai shek

“ 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. ”

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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

- Unknown

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

- Orison S. Marden

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

- Henry Miller

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

- Charlie Chaplin

“ Hard work beats all the tonics and vitamins in the world. ”

- Col. Harland Sanders

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

- B.C. Forbes

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

- Orison S. Marden

“ 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. ”

- Orison S. Marden

“ Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it… ”

- William James

“ Just one word more — please steal time every day, if you cannot find it in any other way, to lie on the grass, or in a hammock, under a huge tree this lovely month… and relax. What a tonic this is for the soul! What a rest for weary nerves! Our husbands, children, friends — yes, and the nation — will profit by our relaxation… ”

- Nell B. Nichols
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