Quotes About Aspirin

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

As soon as she'd come home that afternoon, she took two aspirin tablets. To get her through the ordeal of supper, two more. It seemed to her that the pain in her lower belly, the hot sullen seepage of blood in her loins had lessened. Her skin was hot, her forehead burning.

Aspirin can cause critical deficiencies in vitamin C, vitamin A, calcium, and folic acid when used daily and should therefore be taken in conjunction with extra supplements of these nutrients.

Girls are always saying things like, "I'm so unhappy that I'm going to overdose on aspirin," but they'd be awfully surprised if they succeeded. They have no intention of dying. At the first sight of blood, they panic.

Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.

Crime isn't a disease, it's a symptom. Cops are like a doctor that gives you aspirin for a brain tumour, except that the cop would rather cure it with a blackjack.

Did you know that Bayer used to own the trademark for heroin?" She shook her head at the subterfuge. "The aspirin company?" "They lost the trademark after World War I. It's in the Treaty of Versailles." "You learn something new every day." "Sears used to sell preloaded syringes of heroin in their catalogue. A buck fifty for two.

I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin.It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted

Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.

Ancient Egyptians, who made medicinal use of willow bark, which contains the same active ingredient as aspirin does, had a theory. They thought four elements flow in us: blood, air, water, and a substance called wekhudu. They theorized that an overabundance of wekhudu caused pain and inflammation and that chewing on willow bark or drinking willow tea reduced the amount of wekhudu in someone experiencing pain or inflammation and thereby restored his health.

The makers of aspirin wish you had a headache right now,' says the graffiti.

the mountaineer's breakfast" (coffee and aspirin).

If you have a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: take two, and keep away from children.

Even if medication relieves some of the burden of depression, it may be functioning like aspirin. That is, it takes away some of the symptoms but the root problems persist.

If we don't understand how seriously ill we are, we don't pursue the remedy with the required diligence. If we are slightly ill, we take an aspirin. If we are dying, we passionately pursue a cure. The cure is not forced on us; it is offered to us.4

Je suis une aspirine effervescente qui se dissout dans Tokyo.

I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.

They were doped up? Then you were lucky." Reacher shook his head. "You want to fight with me, your best choice would be aspirin.

Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin.

Professionalism in medicine has given us medial miracles for the affluent but hospitals that will charge $35 for aspirin.

and they were having some new kind of beer that tasted like aspirin and smelled like magnolias and cost more than a hamburger.

America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeks.

In fact, one of the most remarkable qualities of cannabis is its safety as a medicine. With a lethal-to-effective-dose ratio of 40,000 to 1, cannabis is far safer than aspirin and most other legal medicines, which commonly have a lethal dose only ten times greater than their effective one.6

Of the thousands of medicaments in official use, few were truly effective: among these were quinine for malaria, opium as an analgesic, colchicum for gout, digitalis to stimulate the heart, amyl nitrate to dilate the arteries in angina and, introduced in 1896, the versatile aspirin.