Typhus Quotes

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. (Antoine de Saint Exupéry)
This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases. View quote
Ferdinand Buisson
The infectious diseases that regularly visited crowded Eurasian societies, and to which many Eurasians consequently developed immune or genetic resistance, included all of history's most lethal killers: smallpox, measles, influenza, plague, tuberculosis, typhus, cholera, malaria, and others. View quote
Jared Diamond
You will come in any case - so why not now? How long I wait and wait. The bad times fall. I have put out the light and opened the door for you, because you are simple and magical. Assume, then, any form that suits your wish, take aim, and blast at me with poisoned shot, or strangle me like an efficient mugger, or else infect me - typhus be my lot. View quote
Anna Akhmatova
I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse. View quote
Charles Jules Henry Nicole