Pox famous quotes

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
-- Charles Baudelaire

#Proud #Pox #Firsts

Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.
-- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#Years #Fever #Pox

We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox that is now devouring us. It is a matter of returning to archaic and ancestral values, while at the same time envisioning the future as something more than the extension of the present.
-- Guillaume Faye

#Restoration #Matter #Pox

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.
-- Jack Johnson

#Pox #Chickens #Caught

Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.
-- Kami Garcia

#Pox #Chickens

Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.
-- Peter Lewis Allen

#Disease #Pox #Voyages

Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.
-- Ruby Wax

#Years #Fake #Pox

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.
-- Sabrina Jeffries

#Husband #Disease #Pox

Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.
-- Stan Smith

#Laughter #Gay #Pox

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.
-- Victor Davis Hanson

#Age #Pox #Faces