quotes about Pox
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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.
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Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.
-- Eleanor Hallowell AbbottSource : Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.79, The Floating Press
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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 FayeSource : Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.18, Arktos
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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 -
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Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.
-- Kami Garcia -
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 AllenSource : "The wages of sin". Book by Peter Lewis Allen, press.uchicago.edu. 2000.
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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 -
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 JeffriesSource : Sabrina Jeffries (2011). “Sabrina Jeffries - The School for Heiresses Series: Never Seduce a Scoundrel, Only a Duke Will Do, Beware a Scot's Revenge and an excerpt from To Wed a Wild Lord”, p.96, Simon and Schuster
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Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.
-- Stan Smith -
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