Colic Quotes

• Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

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  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart   Wind   Criticism  

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.55

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• Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.

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  Avicenna

  Pain   Health   Abnormal  

  Avicenna (1999). “The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)”, Abjad Book Designers & Builders

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• My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

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  George Eliot

  Sky   Childhood   Sorrow  

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• Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton.

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  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking   Experience   Littles  

  1590

• Let Harlequin be taken with a fit of the colic, and his trappings will have to serve that mood too.

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Taken   Fit   Mood  

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.43

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