Plague Quotes

276 Plague quotes by 229 unique authors

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil. — Henry Fielding
It is not a case of whether we want to wash our hands of Europe or want to help her to regain her feet. The… — B. C. Forbes
Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague. — Hendrik Poinar
The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill. — Katharine Lee Bates
Adolescence is a plague on the senses. — Henry Rollins
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. — Yayoi Kusama
If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge. — Muhammad Ali
Immorality, violence, and divorce, with their accompanying sorrows, plague society worldwide. — Joseph B. Wirthlin
Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos… — Alan Huffman
Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential. — Rick Pitino
Idleness of the mind is much worse than that of the body: wit, without employment, is a disease - the rust of the soul, a… — Samuel Smiles
If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil. — Henry Fielding
A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot… — Igor Stravinsky
The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague… — Peter Lewis Allen
I have to shoot without any breaks. I yell at Herzog and hit him. I have to fight for every sequence. I wish Herzog would… — Klaus Kinski
We are a plague on the Earth. — David Attenborough
Old age has been charged with being insensible to pleasure and to enjoyments arising from the gratification of the senses, a most blessed and heavenly… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable,… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more… — George Washington
One was never married and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague — Robert Burton

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