He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that… — Peter Lewis Allen Copy Share Image
Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
So who's perfect? ... Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman… — John O'Hara Copy Share Image
So for front-runners we have a black and a woman. It's like being made to choose between syphilis or having and old… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I did ... learn an important distinction in graduate school: a speculation about who had syphilis when is gossip if it's about… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Why is it a shame for me to cause them to die and try to exterminate them, tell me? You did not… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy." "Not to mention the right to grow old… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have a healthy disrespect for religion. I really do. When Columbus came to this country in 1492 he brought syphilis, diphtheria,… — David Feherty Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Nature: that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. ” — Stanley Norman Cohen Copy Share Image
As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
Black scientists and technicians, many of them women, used cells from a black woman to help save the lives of millions of… — Rebecca Skloot Copy Share Image
“A not uncommon practice was to associate nationality with a particular disease, often sexually transmitted. For example, the English called syphilis "The… — Daniel N. Leeson Copy Share Image
Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Read a textbook. It will tell you. These are the things for instance on the African continent that will contribute to immune… — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
