Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague. — Max Cannon Copy Share Image
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt;… — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
A plague of snow, fluffy and dry before it hardens and grips the trees, the walls, and the cars parked haphazardly everywhere.… — Henri Cole Copy Share Image
I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard… — John H. McWhorter Copy Share Image
We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
All I can say, in answer to this kind queries [of friends] is that I have not the distemper called the Plague;… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“In the countryside, an outbreak of plague usually lasted about six months and then faded away. In cities and other places where… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
In experimental art, men are given the exact specifications of coming violence to their own psyches from their own counter-irritant or technology...… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The war for our Union, with all the constitutional issues which it settled, and all the military lessons which it gathered in,… — William James Copy Share Image
Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating… — Kay Arthur Copy Share Image
The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The zombie threat is made worse by the fact that their victims then turn into the creature that attacked them. This too… — Kim Paffenroth Copy Share Image
Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical… — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
The Peloponnesian War turns out to be no dry chronicle of abstract cause and effect. No, it is above all an intense,… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
“I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come across… — albert camus Copy Share Image
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fears of creating new kinds of plagues or of altering human evolution or of irreversibly altering the environment were only some of… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not? — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“Within ten days, thirty million people would die from the plague. Three weeks from now, two hundred million human beings would die… — Bobby Akart Copy Share Image
Where the poison wind blows a deadly plague spreading negativity, viciously unto every city. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
She tilted her head to one side, considering him. "Do you love me?" "Love is a trick and a sham. A foolish… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The price of freedom—of individuality—is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Roughly 7 to 8 percent of men in Germany are homosexual. If that is how things remain, our nation will fall to… — Heinrich Himmler Copy Share Image
On working with director Werner Herzog: I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
“Lips, let sour words go by and language end: What is amiss plague and infection mend! Graves only be men's works and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Published in 1947, 'The Plague' has often been read as an allegory, a book that is really about the occupation of France,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image