. . . men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them. . . . In the world ruled by tigers with ulcers, rutted by strictured bulls, scavenged by blind jackals. . . . What can it profit a man to gain the whole world and to come to his property with a gastric ulcer, a blown prostate, and bifocals?
I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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.
The greatest cause of ulcers is mountain-climbing over molehills.
We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.
Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
I dont have ulcers, I give them
I have an ulcer. It has an IQ of 185.
He doesn't get ulcers - he gives them.
The seals stupidly dive off rocks into swirling black water, barking mindlessly. The zookeepers feed them dead fish. A crowd gathers around the tank, mostly adults, a few accompanied by children. On the seals' tank a plaque warns: COINS CAN KILL——IF SWALLOWED, COINS CAN LODGE IN AN ANIMAL'S STOMACH AND CAUSE ULCERS, INFECTIONS AND DEATH. DO NOT THROW COINS IN THE POOL. So what do I do? Toss a handful of change into the tank when none of the zookeepers are watching. It's not the seals I hate——it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me.
There are many other possibilities more enlightening than the struggle to become the local doctor's most affluent ulcer case.
Colds, ulcers, flu, and cancer are things we get. Schizophrenia is something we are.
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.
One of the lowest points in my life was when I was diagnosed and combated with severe ulcerative colitis which is severe ulcers in you colon that bleed.
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.
