Plague Quotes · Page 6

[Jews were] fomenting a general plague on the whole world.

— Claudius

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“One of the cafés had that brilliant idea of putting up a slogan: 'the best protection against infection is a good bottle…

— Albert Camus

My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our…

— Jerry Springer

Abysmal oversight at the border has allowed for crime to plague our nation.

— George Santos

Another intruder that plagues our good health is sleeplessness. Insomnia is much like constipation in that stress or nervous tension can bring…

— Jack LaLanne

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

— Marian Wright Edelman

I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable…

— Jane Austen

What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.

— Chavela Vargas

We know about as much about software quality problems as they knew about the Black Plague in the 1600s. We've seen the…

— Tom Van Vleck

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get…

— Muhammad Ali

Any decent society must generate a feeling of community. Community offsets loneliness. It gives people a vitally necessary sense of belonging. Yet…

— Alvin Toffler

I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth -- the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other…

— Martin Luther

To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But…

— A. Lee Martinez

Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.

— Sue Thoele

The more Arsenal games I see, the more it chips away at my impostor syndrome, a common plague among Arsenal fans with…

— Brendan Hunt

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

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

— Albert Camus

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

— Fernando Pessoa

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when…

— William Butler Yeats

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

— Rick Pitino

It is straightforward—and never mind, for now, about plagues and famines: if God existed, and if he cared for humankind, he would…

— Martin Amis

I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the…

— Rita Mae Brown

Famine, plague, death and war... that's a pretty good description of 1917-18. The war was meant to end quickly, but by 1917…

— Philip Jenkins