Plague Quotes

I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. (Thom Gunn)
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it. View quote
Martin Luther
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. View quote
Russell Crowe
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. View quote
Angela Carter
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. View quote
Robert Burton
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age They were not such a plague when I was young What else have I to spur me into song. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Pittacus said, Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine and he is very happy who hath this only. View quote
Plutarch
A plague o' both your houses. View quote
William Shakespeare
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. View quote
Ludwig von Mises
The English play hockey in any weather. Thunder, lightening, plague of locusts... nothing can stop the hockey. Do not fight the hockey, for the hockey will win. (Maureen Johnson)
The old problems - love, money, security, status, health, etc. - are still here to plague us or please us. View quote
Shelley Berman
A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal. View quote
Daniel Berrigan
The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living. View quote
Stella Gibbons
It [will-making] is the latest opportunity we have of exercising the natural perversity of the disposition ... This last act of our lives seldom belies the former tenor of them for stupidity, caprice, and unmeaning spite. All that we seem to think of is to manage matters so (in settling accounts with those who are so unmannerly as to survive us) as to do as little good, and to plague and disappoint as many people, as possible. View quote
William Hazlitt
Plague was plague, and could not be treated lightly. And this plague was obviously worse than most, having killed everyone in the region. View quote
Kim Stanley Robinson
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats. View quote
James Frazer
The Americans should stop insulting us, I'm not going to be an accomplice to the depopulation of the land. It's not up to the Americans to tell us how to organise our farm policy and the balance of our society. Their attitude is to treat the EC as if it had the plague and then encourage the rest of the world to join in. View quote
Jacques Delors
I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing. View quote
Emil Cioran
Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart. (Emil Cioran)
The dread of futility has been my life-long plague. View quote
Maya Angelou
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 pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements and exercising them for the destruction of mankind. View quote
George Washington
My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not to be found in the decisions in Washington. They are instead to be found in the hearts, minds and resources of our own people here at home. View quote
Jerry Springer
A symbol from the first, of mastery, experiments such as Hippocrates made and substituted for vague speculation stayed the ravages of plague. View quote
Marianne Moore