Tonic Quotations

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

From a rates perspective, this release will provide a much needed tonic to those looking for lower UK rates.

Patience is drawing on underlying forces, it is powerfully positive, though to a natural view it looks like just sitting it out. How would I persist against positive eroding forces if I were not drawing on invisible forces? And patience has a positive tonic effect on others; because of the presence of the patient person, they revive and go on, as if he were the gyroscope of the ship providing a stable ground. But the patient person himself does not enjoy it.

That's the real tonic for these programs and why (people) come back and do them again. It's overcoming something powerful.

We've just got to take care of our business. The best tonic for us is to get the two points.

So you can imagine her relief and joy when she was told the good news about being selected for ITV's I'm A Celebrity. It's just the tonic she needs to get her life back on track again.

There's an old man sitting next to meMaking love to his tonic and gin.

It'll be spirited and hopefully that'll be the tonic that allows our team to play with passion.

It was nice to see some sun. I have no doubts that better weather will be just the tonic for this offense. We moved the ball well and our execution overall was good. Better weather makes everyone looser.

If one loses wealth, he may regain it by some means or other. If he loses health, some doctor might prescribe a tonic to win it back. If one loses status and authority he may, by sheer luck, gain them back. If Virtue is lost, it is lost forever; nothing can restore the pristine purity. So one has to be ever vigilant and should never slacken.

The life that neither grief nor burden knowsIs dwarfed in sympathy before its close.The life that grows majestic with the yearsMust taste the bitter tonic found in tears.

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.