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
WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Heart disease syphilis pregnancy All you creeps on the street get away from me” — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
Civilized men arrived in the Pacific, armed with alcohol, syphilis, trousers, and the Bible. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“Nature: that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer. ” — Stanley Norman Cohen Copy Share Image
The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured. — Robert Briffault Copy Share Image
It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is… — Clifford Allbutt 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
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
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
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
The Philippines is a terrible name, coming from Spain. Phillip II was the father of the inquisition, who I believe died of… — Imelda Marcos Copy Share Image
“He adds, wistfully, "I don't suppose you have syphilis, do you?" "No." "Pity. There's a study starting in Alabama that would have… — Lauren Beukes Copy Share Image
Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine 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
“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
“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
God says, 'One woman, one man,' and everyone says, 'Oh, that's old hat, that's that old Bible stuff,'" he said. "But I'm… — Phil Robertson 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
By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer,… — Margaret Sanger 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
“That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. They threw you in and told you… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Will: "Nice place to live, isn't it? Let's hope they left something behind other than filth. Forwarding addresses, a few severed limbs,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“One day in 1948 or 1949, the Brentwood County Mart, a shopping complex in an upscale neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, was… — Alex Ross 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
“The symptoms syphilis engendered worsened over time. In addition to the unsightly skin ulcers that pockmarked the body in the later stages… — Lindsey Fitzharris Copy Share Image
“Medical historians have cited many observations which they regarded as indicating the ancient existence of syphilis; but most of these, on close… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
“Freneuse is an oddball, an idler, without any aim in life! If you ask me, he has smoked too much opium in… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective. — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
“Yes, one of the benefits of being embarrassingly rich is that you find out if you have syphilis much earlier than the… — Abigail Barnette Copy Share Image
Gave a girl herpes in exchange for syphilis, put my LP on your Christmas gift list. — Eminem Copy Share Image
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Ooh good I've got syphilis, the BEST of the sexually transmitted diseases. — Jeremy Clarkson Copy Share Image
“... because I happen to think - this is just my personal opinion - that the only lower form of life than… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
![“Medical historians have cited many observations which they regarded as indicating the ancient existence of syphilis; but most of these, on close scrutiny, turn out to be unconvincing […] Ozanam quotes two sonnets from a Florentine poet—one entitled ‘De Matrona,’ the other 'Ad Priapum'—which he…” quote by Hans Zinsser](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0f5/hans-zinsser-34557_history_medical-historians-have-cited-many-obser_1854315.jpg)
