Common Cold Quotes:

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche

- Andrew Denton

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

topic: Stress, Pressure, Common, Stressors, Common Cold

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

- William Osler

topic: Medicine, Way, Common, Common Cold

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

- Alexander Fleming

topic: Health, Helping, Bedtime, Common Cold

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

- Pam Ayres

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

topic: Moving, Past, Discovery, Common Cold

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

- Earl Wilson

topic: Common Cold

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

- Richard Schickel

topic: Commitment, Glowing, Males, Common Cold, Fear Of Commitment

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

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

topic: War, Holiday, Storm, Common Cold, Four Horsemen

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

topic: Common Cold, Respiratory

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

topic: Goal, Research, Disease, Common Cold

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold

- Kathryn Schulz

topic: Doubt, Common, Cold, Doubt And Certainty, Common Cold

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

- Robert Orben

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

topic: Successful, Fortune Cookie, Common, Cold Shoulder, Common Cold

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

topic: Movie, Failure, Bed, Common Cold

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

topic: Xanax, Sadness, Our World, Common Cold

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

topic: Differences, Numbers, World, Economic Depression, Common Cold

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

- Emanuel Azenberg

topic: Heart, Common, Cold, Cholera, Common Cold

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

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

topic: Attitude, Opportunity, Simple, Common Cold, Implied

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

topic: Dog, Lying, Believe, Stout, Common Cold

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

topic: Sneezing, Vitamins, Common, Incidence, Common Cold

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

topic: Baseball, Depressing, Men, Pluto, Common Cold