Disease Quote by Salman Rushdie

“The disease then seized upon his whole body and distracted it by various torments. For he had a slow fever, and the itching of…

— Eusebius of Caesarea

“No sooner were the ships unloaded, however, than sickness broke out among the crews. It quickly spread among the natives, who had come to…

— David E. Stannard

He spoke nine languages. You know some people can just pick up an instrument and play. My father was like that with languages.

— Daryl Davis

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man…

— Yukio Mishima

Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way…

— Peter Lewis Allen

Perhaps his gloom was due to his profession, that he lived among fallen empires, and in reading these languages that had not been spoken…

— Anonymous

“I suppose you heard him yelling as the doctor set his leg." "I never knew there were so many rude words in the English…

— Karen Hawkins

All languages had their birth, their apogee and decline.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.

— Robert Herrick

“He revels in obscure words, as in his list of phobias including pteronophobia (tickling with feathers), xenoglossophobia (foreign languages), scorodophobia (garlic), as well as…

— Jack Lynch

He cared for languages dead long enough that they wouldn’t change on him.

— Maggie Stiefvater