Tonic

Tonic may refer to:

  • Tonic water, a drink traditionally containing quinine
  • Soft drink, a carbonated beverage
  • Tonic (physiology), the response of a muscle fiber or nerve ending typified by slow, continuous action
  • Herbal tonic, a herbal medicine with tonic effects
  • Tonic (music), a concept of musical theory
  • Tonic (band), an American rock band
  • Tonic (Tonic album), 2010
  • Tonic (music venue), a New York City music venue, 1998–2007
  • Tonic (Medeski Martin & Wood album), 2000
  • Tonic (radio program), Canadian radio program

Famous quotes containing the word tonic:

    “You are done for—a living dead man—not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the “mystery” of life. Not for nothing is hatred still the best tonic ever discovered, for which any organism, however feeble, has a tolerance.”
    —E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)

    “We need the tonic of wildness,—to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)