"Pox" Quotes . Top 28 Short Quotes About "Pox"

"The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity."

--- Adolf Hitler

#Reason #Scourge #World

"The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't."

--- Aldous Huxley

#People #War #Goes On

"Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint."

--- Alexander Pope

#All Night #Might #Sin

"A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!"

--- William Shakespeare

#Throat #Gonzalo From Tempest #Dog

"In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen."

--- Benjamin Franklin

#Four Years #My Son #Died

"Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono."

--- Bill Maher

#Ducks #Bird #Bird Flu

"[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It's me, Calvin! I was wondering if you'd like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy, I don't think you've ever invited me to... Calvin's Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin's Mom: You're contagious! You can't have anyone over to play! Calvin: Shhhh! Shhhh! You'll spoil the whole thing! I was going to trick Susie into catching... HEY! OW! LET GO! Susie: [Hanging up the phone] Any chance of getting transferred, Dad?"

--- Bill Watterson

#Thinking #Catching #Phones

"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

#Scourge #More Money #Faces

"Will: "Nice place to live, isn't it? Let's hope they left something behind other than filth. Forwarding addresses, a few severed limbs, a prostitute or two ..." Jem: "Indeed. Perhaps, if we're fortunate, we can still catch syphilis." "Or demon pox," Will suggested cheerfully, trying the door under the stairs."

--- Cassandra Clare

#Places To Live #Clockwork Angel #Jem Carstairs

"Forsooth, I no longer toil in vain, To prove that demon pox warps the brain. So though 'ti pity, it's not in vain That the pox-ridden worm was slain: For to believe in me, you all must deign."

--- Cassandra Clare

#Demon Pox #Warp #Toil

"I was just thinking of bundling up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks at Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile. "I could use your assistance." "Unfortunately, you may have to delay your plans for suicide a bit longer. Gabriel Lightwood is downstairs, and I have two words for you. Two of your favorite words, at least when you put them together." "'Utter simpleton'?" inquired Will. "'Worthless upstart'?" Jem grinned. "'Demon pox,'" he said."

--- Cassandra Clare

#Thinking #Hyde #Said

"Their grandchildren had reminded Will of the song about demon pox he had taught them- when they were much too young, Tessa had always thought- and that they had all memorized. They sang it all together and out of tune, scandalizing Sophie."

--- Cassandra Clare

#Demon Pox #Together #Tunes

"Demon pox," said Sophie. "Mr. Lightwood's got it, has had for years, and it'll kill him in a right couple of months if he doesn't get the cure. And Mortmain said he can get it for him." The room exploded in a hubbub. Charlotte raced over to Sophie; Henry called after her; Will leaped from his chair and was dancing in a circle."

--- Cassandra Clare

#Cures #Months #Said

"Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in - Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX."

--- Cassandra Clare

#Green #Demon Pox #Jem

"Demon pox. There's always demon pox."

--- Cassandra Clare

#Demon Pox #Demon #Pox

"Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox Just how is it acquired? One must first go to the bad part of town Until one is very tired Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox I had it all along- No, not the pox, you foolish blocks I meant this very song- For i was right, and you were wrong!"

--- Cassandra Clare

#Demon Pox #Tired #Towns

"Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it."

--- Cassandra Clare

#Demon Pox #Jem #Brutes

"Demon pox,' said Will with the satisfaction of the truly vindicated."

--- Cassandra Clare

#Said #Demon Pox #Demon

"Gabriel’s green eyes sought Will. “It was demon pox, wasn’t it? You know all about it, don’t you? Aren’t you some sort of expert?” “Well, you needn’t act as if I invented it,” said Will."

--- Cassandra Clare

#Green #Green Eyes #Eye

"And maybe it would have bitten you in half," said Will. "What you are describing, the transformation into a demon, is the last stage of the pox." "Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them." "Yes, but if Benedict was going to turn into an enormous serpent, you'd think you could at least have mentioned it," said Charlotte. "As a matter of general interest."

--- Cassandra Clare

#Thinking #Lasts #Book

"Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them"

--- Cassandra Clare

#Book #Said #Demon Pox

"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

#Young Writers #Writing #Sheets

"Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay."

--- Stan Smith

#Gay #Pox #Laughter

"Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it."

--- Darrel Ray

#Religion #May #Viruses

"A pox on both his testicles! (Esperetta)"

--- Sherrilyn Kenyon

#Pox #Testicles

"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

#Bad Husband #Dangerous #Languish

"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

#Five Years #Tvs #Illness

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

--- Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

#Fever #Scarlet #Measles

28 "Pox" Quotes