Humor Quote by Will Durant

“Some days you were the plague, and some days you were the Egyptian.”

— Adrianne Brooks

“The simple idea that people should be allowed to worship as they wished caused more suffering than the ten plagues of Egypt.”

— Ken Follett

“The ancient Greeks considered love a mental illness that led to suicide, homicide, betrayal, war, all sorts of fun.”

— Marion G. Harmon

“III. Hippocrates having cured many sicknesses, fell sick himself and died.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Infernal woman, you nearly gave me an apoplexy. They ought to count you among the ten plagues of Egypt!”

— Kristen Callihan

“To make the ancients speak, we must feed them with our own blood.”

— von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

“While the Egyptians were plagued with lice and locusts, the Hebrews were plagued with attention deficit disorder.”

— Heather Zempel

We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have…

— Hans Zinsser

“What disease would keep you alive, even when you're promised death? A disease kills. A miracle saves.”

— K. Weikel

“Ammit was the personification of chaos and disorder; a representation of all that the Ancient Egyptians feared and hated.”

— Patrick Auerbach

“Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love…

— George Sheehan

“All mortal greatness is but disease.”

— Herman Melville