Fever Quotes

292 quotes by 248 authors

The fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world Have hung upon the beatings of my heart. — William Wordsworth
Tis a little thing To give a cup of water; yet its draught of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips, May give a shock of… — Thomas Noon Talfourd
It's easy to see golf not as a game at all but as some whey-faced, nineteenth-century Presbyterian minister's fever dream of exorcism achieved through ritual… — Bruce McCall
O, my Jesus, I understand well that, just as illness is measured with a thermometer and a high fever tells us of the seriousness of… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at… — Thomas Lovejoy
Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm. — Wendell Phillips
A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man… — Seneca the Younger
I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her last days and her only… — Mother Teresa
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. — Martin Luther
One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a… — Samuel Hahnemann
Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don't say: 'Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to burn? Has it… — Al Gore
Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes… — Philip Reeve
I had a series of childhood illnesses... scarlet fever.... pneumonia.... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life… — Wilma Rudolph
From its very inaction, idleness ultimately becomes the most active cause of evil; as a palsy is more to be dreaded than a fever. The… — Charles Caleb Colton
A corner draft fluttered the flame And the white fever of temptation Upswept its angel wings that cast A cruciform shadow. — Boris Pasternak
Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the… — Stark Young
The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. Its first symptom was falling hair. Diarrhea and fever, which in some cases… — John Hersey
Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures. — Richard J. Needham
In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night. — Edmond Jabes

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