Quote by Elizabeth von Arnim

“When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we wrote notes to each other perhaps…

— Eudora Welty

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles.

— Francis Schaeffer

“Idyllic follies never last, my little Chauvelin…They come upon us like the measles...and are as easily cured.”

— Baroness Orczy

You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community.…

— Seth Berkley

“What's worse than cancer? Leprosy.”

— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“I think one of those old ladies down there gave me something. Which one looked guilty?” “Probably both of them. After all, my mother…

— Mercy Celeste

“Coughs and sneezes spread diseases!”

— Daisy Wooton

“The croup following measles, on top of malnutrition, on top of rickets," he said to me under his breath. "It's the cascade of catastrophies.”

— Abraham Verghese

“From 1963 through 1965, a nationwide epidemic of rubella—German measles—caused thousands of women to deliver babies who were handicapped in some way:”

— Lou Ann Walker

“Personally, I don’t bother with anything cheap—my mother always said cheap was dear in the long run—but some people aren’t fussy.”

— Nick Mamatas

“Ever met a sympathetic doctor? No ways. They’re always impatient, glancing at the watch, calculating the price of your sickness against the price of…

— Ian Martin