Pox Quotes

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

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Tempest, Throat

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.147, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Demon pox. There's always demon pox.

  Cassandra Clare

  Demon Pox, Demon

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• My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time

  Muhammad Ali

  Children, Mama, Chickens

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2010

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• 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

  Night, Dancing, Age

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.373

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• Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

  Stan Smith

  Laughter, Gay

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

  Cassandra Clare

  Demon Pox, Satisfaction, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.882, Simon and Schuster

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

  Jack Johnson

  Chickens, Caught, Over It

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• 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

  Writing, Proud, Firsts

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Song, Block, Tired

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• 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

  Regret, Children, Taken

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.152, Applewood Books

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• 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, Mermaid

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• This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

  Lewis Black

  Stories, Too Much, Scar

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• Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

  Ezra Pound

  Causes, Body, Limits

  Ezra Pound (1960). “Impact: essays on ignorance and the decline of American civilization”

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• I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!

  Erasmus Darwin

  Kings, Sorry, War

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• 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

  World, Disease, Voyages

  "The wages of sin". Book by Peter Lewis Allen, press.uchicago.edu. 2000.

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• 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, Malaria, Botox

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• 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, Lasts

  Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.18, Arktos

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• 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, Gone, Body

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• 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

  Lying, Yellow, Green

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• Atten. Pray of what disease did Mr. Badman die, for now I perceive we are come up to his death? Wise. I cannot so properly say that he died of one disease, for there were many that had consented, and laid their heads together to bring him to his end. He was dropsical, he was consumptive, he was surfeited, was gouty, and, as some say, he had a tang of the pox in his bowels. Yet the captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.

  John Bunyan

  Wise, Men, Together

  John Bunyan (2014). “'Life and Death of Mr Badman' and 'The Holy War'”, p.157, Cambridge University Press

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• A propos of Distempers, I am going to tell you a thing that I am sure will make you wish your selfe here. The Small Pox so fatal and so general amongst us is here entirely harmless by the invention of engrafting (which is the term they give it). There is a set of old Women who make it their business to perform the Operation.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Science, Giving, Wish

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• Pacifism is a nice idea but it can get you killed. We're not there yet. Evolution is slow, small pox is fast.

  George Carlin

  Nice, Ideas, Comedian

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

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Years, Fever, Chickens

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.79, The Floating Press

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• I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.

  Eula Biss

  Kids, Son, Decision

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• 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

  Light, Two, World

  Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

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