Ulcers Quotations

I have tried to create main characters who are drastically different from the types who generally appear in crime novels. Mikael Blomkvist, for instance, doesn't have ulcers or booze problems or an anxiety complex. He doesn't listen to operas, nor does he have an oddball hobby such as making model airplanes.

To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.

I don't take any of the medications I took when I was younger: antibiotics, antacids, aspirin, asthma inhalers, ulcer medication, allergy shots.

I have an ulcer. It has an IQ of 185.

Peptic ulcers became more common in the 20th century at the same time that these theories of Freud and other psychoanalysts became popular. And somehow those meshed, and this tradition emerged that ulcers were caused by stress or turmoil in one's life.

The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.

I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

The poor think they will be happy when they become rich. The rich think they will be happy when they are rid of their ulcers.

In America, the land of the permanent revolution, ulcers and cancer often become, for the men at the top, the contemporary equivalent of the guillotine.

In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense

I dont have ulcers, I give them

He doesn't get ulcers - he gives them.

I received a card the other day from Steve Early which said, "Don't Worry Me--I am an 8 Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay.

Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.

There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.

The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.

Golf is a game where guts and blind devotion will always net you absolutely nothing but an ulcer.

I had a tight stomach all the time. I actually developed ulcers. I've learned better than to put all that internal pressure on myself.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

Envy is the ulcer of the soul.