Common Cold Quotes

• Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche.

  Andrew Denton

  Stress, Pressure, Common

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt.

  William Osler

  Medicine, Way, Common

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• Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps.

  Alexander Fleming

  Health, Helping, Bedtime

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• Medicinal discovery,
  It moves in mighty leaps,
  It leapt straight past the common cold
  And gave it us for keeps.

  Pam Ayres

  Moving, Science, Past

  Some of Me Poetry (1976) "Oh no, I got a cold"

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• Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with.

  Earl Wilson

  Doctors, Helping, Common

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• That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment.

  Richard Schickel

  Commitment, Glowing, Males

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• The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Holiday, Storm

  "Interesting Times". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1994.

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• I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable.

  Tia Mowry

  Thinking, People, Serious

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• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  Ike Skelton

  Goal, Research, Disease

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• both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

  Kathryn Schulz

  Doubt, Common, Cold

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• Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder.

  Robert Orben

  Successful, Fortune Cookie, Common

  Robert Orben (1979). “2500 jokes to start 'em laughing”, Doubleday Books

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• Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover.

  Gene Tierney

  Movie, Failure, Six

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold.

  Mitch Albom

  Xanax, Sadness, Our World

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• Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you.

  David D. Burns

  Differences, Numbers, World

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.

  Emanuel Azenberg

  Heart, Common, Cold

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• I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?

  John Brunner

  Attitude, Opportunity, Simple

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.491, Macmillan

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• Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any cure for a hangover. I've tried them all: iced tomatoes, hot clam juice, brandy peaches. Like the common cold it defies solution. Time alone can stay it. The hair of the dog? That way lies folly. It's as logical as trying to put out a fire with applications of kerosene.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Dog, Lying, Believe

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.95, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going.

  Linus Pauling

  Sneezing, Vitamins, Common

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• The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto.

  Michael Lewis

  Baseball, Depressing, Men

  Michael Lewis (2004). “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company

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