Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
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.
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
I don't know what reception I'm at, but for God's sake give me a gin and tonic.
Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear.
I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.