Communicable Diseases Quotes:

Misery is a communicable disease.

- Martha Graham

topic: Attitude, Disease, Misery, Communicable Diseases

There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

- Benjamin Spock

topic: Funny, Mother, Children, Pediatrician, Funny Family

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Spiritual, May, Disease, Spiritual Health, Scarlet

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we had dying from the tsunami.

- David Nabarro

source: "Scarborough Country", www.nbcnews.com. January 3, 2005.

topic: Dying, Disease, Chance, Tsunami, Communicable Diseases

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

- Voltaire

topic: Art, Health, Medicine, Chiropractic Care, Medical Care

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

- Wayne Gretzky

topic: Motivational, Sports, Congratulations, Inspirational Hockey, Motivational Hockey

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

- Hippocrates

topic: Philosophical, Disease, Remedy, Communicable Diseases

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

- Thomas Browne

source: 'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

topic: Death, Disease, Cures, Disease And Death, Communicable Diseases

Such lifestyle factors such as cigarette smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, little physical activity and low dietary calcium intake are risk factors for osteoporosis as well as for many other non-communicable diseases.

- Gro Harlem Brundtland

topic: Osteoporosis, Smoking, Alcohol, Calcium, Communicable Diseases

If you feel depressed you shouldn't go out on the street because it will show on your face and you'll give it to others. Misery is a communicable disease.

- Martha Graham

topic: Depression, Giving, Disease, Communicable Diseases

Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.

- Terry Pratchett

source: Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.38, Random House

topic: Jobs, Disease, Discworld, Communicable Diseases

All diseases run into one, old age.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Running, Funny Relationship, Hair, Old Jokes, 30th Birthday

All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

- Thomas Mann

topic: Expression, Disease, Interest, Disease And Death, Interest In Life

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

- Virginia Woolf

source: 1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.

topic: Birthday, Running, People, Communicable Diseases

Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.

- Faith Sullivan

source: Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.136, Broadway Books

topic: Differences, Disease, Awful, Communicable Diseases

Resentment is a communicable disease and should be quarantined.

- Cynthia Ozick

source: Cynthia Ozick (1966). “Trust”

topic: Disease, Resentment, Should, Communicable Diseases