Misery is a communicable disease.

If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others.…

— Martha Graham

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.

— David Nabarro

Economic diseases are highly communicable. It follows therefore that the economic health of every country is a proper matter of concern to all its…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

— Benjamin Spock

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease.

— Terry Pratchett

There are only two things a child will share willingly -- communicable diseases and his mother's age.

— Benjamin Spock

“Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts…

— Brian McGreevy

Communicable diseases and his mother's age

— Benjamin Spock

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

— Cynthia Ozick

“An education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the…

— Terry Pratchett

Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease because God…

— Lily Montagu

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost…

— Henry David Thoreau

The doctrine that might makes right has covered the earth with misery. While it crushes the weak, it also destroys the strong. Every deceit,…

— John Peter Altgeld

“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific…

— Blaise Cendrars

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

— Stephen Hawking