The Plague Quotes

The Plague Quote of the day

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny.

We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Walk by faith! Stop the plague of worry. Relax! Learn to say, "Lord, this is Your battle."

The Bears treat offense as if its bubonic plague.

HUMORIST, n. A plague that would have softened down the hoar austerity of Pharaoh's heart and persuaded him to dismiss Israel with his best wishes, cat-quick.

Just swerve Golovkin like the plague. He punches like a mule. I don't need to be in with him. Dangerous fight.

Every child has the spirit of creation. The rubbish of life often exterminates the spirit through plague and a souls own wretchedness.

Another plague upon the land, as devastating as the locusts God loosed on the Egyptians, is 'Political Correctness.'

where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death

The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history.

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.

[Jews were] fomenting a general plague on the whole world.

Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are.

From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

Our forces shall spread like a great plague across the earth, every blue zone on the planet will feel our wrath!

Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

I know zoos are no longer in people's good graces. Religion faces the same problem. Certain illusions about freedom plague them both.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

Atheism is the result of ignorance and pride; of strong sense and feeble reasons; of good eating and ill-living. It is the plague of society, the corrupter of manners, and the underminer of property.

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language.

Words were her plague and words were her redemption.

The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.

Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices Make instruments to plague us.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception.

Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.

The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams.

Gossip is a plague that consumes weak, gullible people and blinds them from the truth of reality; it can devour entire city's. I prefer keeping my eyes wide open.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.